Tag: Housing

An Agency Desperately Trying to Get Its Way

Terry Eastland · November 4, 2014 7:01 pm

The HUD IG's report documented in detail that Rotan, Texas, officials failed at every turn with 86 housing units.

Big HUD problems in tiny Texas town

Mark Tapscott · November 3, 2014 10:00 am

A "For Sale" sign is posted on a home in Monterey Park, Calif. (AP/Nick Ut)

New home sales pick up slightly in September

Joseph Lawler · October 24, 2014 2:47 pm

One member of the Securities and Exchange Commission had colorful criticism for his colleagues Wednesday as they voted to finalize a long-delayed mortgage rule that has been significantly loosened following industry concerns that it would crimp lending. (iStock Photo)

SEC commissioner rips regulators for bowing to industry on mortgage rule

Joseph Lawler · October 22, 2014 7:00 pm

Although the industry prevailed on the mortgage rule, lenders remain worried about having to buy back faulty loans from government mortgage buyers Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, and, even more importantly, the threat of future litigation over loans they make.Â (iStock)

Don’t expect easier credit from watered-down mortgage rule

Joseph Lawler · October 22, 2014 9:00 am

A "For Sale" sign is posted on a home in Monterey Park, Calif. (AP/Nick Ut)

US existing home sales rise in September

Josh Boak · October 21, 2014 3:51 pm

Mel Watt, the director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency that oversees the two bailed-out government mortgage businesses, said that his agency would work to clear up some of the legal impediments to greater mortgage lending by banks and aim to increase loans with down payments as low as 3 percent. (AP Photo)

Watt prepares to expand home lending

Joseph Lawler · October 20, 2014 8:32 pm

A housing program in Chicago spent millions of taxpayer dollars on projects that should have been covered by income from the rent it was collecting, a watchdog report found. (iStock)

Chicago misused HUD housing grants

Sarah Bedford · October 8, 2014 6:00 pm

Even Ben Bernanke Is Struggling …

Geoffrey Norman · October 3, 2014 12:09 pm

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Beltway Confidential

Mapping the disaster caused by granting mortgages to non-creditworthy Hispanics

Michael Barone · October 3, 2014 12:39 am

Court to hear cases over employment, housing bias

Sam Hananel · October 2, 2014 9:43 pm

Former Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke has previously warned that lenders have set their credit requirements too strictly in the wake of the housing crash.Â (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)

Bernanke can’t refinance his mortgage

Joseph Lawler · October 2, 2014 9:21 pm