The Housing Resource Center

02/03/2017

Gary Cohn, a top economic adviser to the White House, described the deregulation effort set for Friday in an interview with the Wall Street Journal.

08/18/2016

http://www.pressdemocrat.com/business/5978525-181/california-earthquake-authority-cuts-price?artslide=0

The state-created nonprofit has come out with new options that allow homeowners to tailor a policy to better fit their needs, CEO Glenn Pomeroy said Tuesday in Santa Rosa.

08/15/2016

http://www.consumerfinancialserviceswatch.com/2016/08/change-order-the-cfpb-previews-its-proposed-fdcpa-regulations

Change Order: The CFPB Previews Its Proposed FDCPA Regulations Aug 10 2016 Browse archives for August 10, 2016 Posted in Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection (CFPB) Tagged with CFPB, consumer financial protection bureau, Dodd-Frank Act, Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, FDCPA, FDCPA regulations...

07/31/2016

This is so crazy.

05/25/2016

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04/27/2016

https://www.federalregister.gov/articles/2016/04/26/2016-09695/amendments-to-the-2013-mortgage-servicing-rules-under-the-real-estate-settlement-procedures-act

The Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection (Bureau) is reopening the comment period for a specific aspect of the proposed rule published by the Bureau in the Federal Register on December 15, 2014 (79 FR 74176). On December 15, 2014, the Bureau published for notice and comment proposed amendments...

04/27/2016

http://www.consumerfinance.gov/data-research/research-reports/testing-bankruptcy-periodic-statement-forms-mortgage-servicing/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_term=042716_a1&utm_campaign=regimp

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04/18/2016

http://nypost.com/2016/04/16/non-bank-servicers-creating-bigger-mortgage-problems/

It’s hard to find a more sympathetic foreclosure story than Kathleen Conrad’s. The disabled widow of a Marine who served in Vietnam, Conrad, 66, lives in a rundown Westchester house the couple boug…

03/02/2016

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-foreclosure-ruling-20160302-story.html

During the bust that followed last decade's housing boom, hundreds of thousands of Californians lost their homes to foreclosure. It was a process later found to be rife with problems, such as overwhelmed bank employees who sometimes didn't even read the foreclosure documents in front of them.

02/03/2016

http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2016/02/02/3745013/foreclosure-mills-debt-collectors-liability/

The lawyers who enable an abusive business model for collecting consumer debts are now on the hook for their clients' screwups.

01/26/2016