housing crisis
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JESSE JACKSON: A New Plan to Make Wall Street Pay for Creating the Foreclosure Crisis
The banks particularly prey on the vulnerable, regularly pleading guilty of discriminating against African Americans and Latinos.
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Foreclosure Crisis Lingers in the Black Community
By Avis Thomas Lester Urban News Service Affluence is no antidote to foreclosure. In Prince George’s County, Maryland — one…
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Nomura Misled Fannie, Freddie on Mortgage Bonds, U.S. Judge Finds
Nate Raymond and Jonathan Stempel, REUTERS NEW YORK (Reuters) — A U.S. judge on Monday ruled that Nomura Holdings…
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Foreclosure to Home Free, as 5-Year Clock Expires
Michael Corkery, THE NEW YORK TIMES MIAMI (The New York Times)—In September, Susan Rodolfi celebrated an unusual anniversary: five years…
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Squatters Slow Detroit’s Plan to Bulldoze Way to Prosperity
COREY WILLIAMS, Associated Press DETROIT (AP) — Chris Mathews’ crew showed up this month to demolish one of the thousands…
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State AGs and Feds Crackdown on Mortgage Fraud
By Charlene Crowell NNPA Columnist Although the rate of foreclosures nationwide has declined by April, 694,000 homeowners were still in…
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Drop in Black Homeownership Rate Double that of Whites
By Charlene Crowell NNPA Columnist Each year the Joint Center for Housing Studies at Harvard University assesses the nation’s housing…
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Housing Recovery Bypasses Blacks and Latinos
By Charlene Crowell NNPA Columnist Scholars from several of the nation’s most-esteemed colleges and universities jointly concluded that the…
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Mortgage Complaints Grow
By Charlene Crowell NNPA Columnist In mid-March, the monitor for the National Mortgage Settlement announced that participating banks had…
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Nation’s Housing Recovery Far from Equal
By Charlene Crowell NNPA Columnist With the annual holiday season approaching, many across the country will soon be celebrating with…
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