This symposium contribution examines the starkly different values reflected in traditional legal literature on foreclosure law reform in the U.S. as compared to some more recent entries in the wake of the rise of subprime lending and high rates of residential mortgage default. I highlight economist Dean Baker’s “right to rent” proposal, which would give former homeowners leasehold rights at market rates, to illustrate a more progressive set of housing policy considerations and to challenge the assumption that ownership is essential or optimal to promoting various housing objectives
This Article unveils the logic of these transactions and provides market context, which is often mis...
The foregoing leads to the major question posed by this paper - when should the logic of mortgage fo...
The recent mortgage foreclosure crisis, whose economic effects are well known, transformed state leg...
Proponents of robust mortgage finance regulation would do well to look to the states, and specifical...
Foreclosures are at a record high, causing families to be displaced, blighted neighborhoods and the ...
This Article argues that adherence to mortgage formalities regarding foreclosure is valuable for exp...
As 2014 came to an end so, perhaps, did the worst foreclosure crisis in U.S. history. On January 15,...
The recession and the drastic decline in home values have combined to trigger a wave of foreclosures...
The subprime mortgage crisis was not only an economic disaster but posed challenges to traditional r...
In 2007, Rick Sharga, vice president of marketing at RealtyTrac, stated that with more stringent len...
From 2007 through 2011, the United States housing market suffered a severe imbalance in supply and d...
While on the surface it seems like any legislation helping Americans keep their homes is a good idea...
Secured credit in homes has been divided and over-divided and spun into so many separate interests t...
In today’s American housing market, foreclosure can be seen as an epidemic resulting from the legal ...
The subprime mortgage crisis was not only an economic disaster but posed challenges to traditional r...
This Article unveils the logic of these transactions and provides market context, which is often mis...
The foregoing leads to the major question posed by this paper - when should the logic of mortgage fo...
The recent mortgage foreclosure crisis, whose economic effects are well known, transformed state leg...
Proponents of robust mortgage finance regulation would do well to look to the states, and specifical...
Foreclosures are at a record high, causing families to be displaced, blighted neighborhoods and the ...
This Article argues that adherence to mortgage formalities regarding foreclosure is valuable for exp...
As 2014 came to an end so, perhaps, did the worst foreclosure crisis in U.S. history. On January 15,...
The recession and the drastic decline in home values have combined to trigger a wave of foreclosures...
The subprime mortgage crisis was not only an economic disaster but posed challenges to traditional r...
In 2007, Rick Sharga, vice president of marketing at RealtyTrac, stated that with more stringent len...
From 2007 through 2011, the United States housing market suffered a severe imbalance in supply and d...
While on the surface it seems like any legislation helping Americans keep their homes is a good idea...
Secured credit in homes has been divided and over-divided and spun into so many separate interests t...
In today’s American housing market, foreclosure can be seen as an epidemic resulting from the legal ...
The subprime mortgage crisis was not only an economic disaster but posed challenges to traditional r...
This Article unveils the logic of these transactions and provides market context, which is often mis...
The foregoing leads to the major question posed by this paper - when should the logic of mortgage fo...
The recent mortgage foreclosure crisis, whose economic effects are well known, transformed state leg...