Tag Archives: Housing Crisis

With President Donald Trump recently calling on federal agencies to create a detailed plan for GSE and housing finance reform, a pair of industry experts outline a plan for what meaningful reform could look like.

The FDIC announced that PwC had agreed to a final settlement stemming to accusations of professional negligence during their audits of Colonial Bank, which collapsed in 2009.

Based on the signs of a slowdown in the current housing market, experts analyzed the possibility of another economic downtown and the consequences thereafter. Here’s what they had to say.

The foreclosure crisis may be history, but it provided critical lessons about how the industry can prepare to assist borrowers through future economic downturns.

Following nearly a decade of increased focus on rentals following the housing boom, the pendulum is starting to swing the other way, according to a recent report. Find out what pushed the rental surge back down and home purchases back up following the housing crisis,

This weekend marks "Lehman Brothers Weekend," the 10-year anniversary of the start of the Financial Crisis. See what those instrumental in handling the crisis learned, and how our current housing market compares to the pre-crisis market.

Mistakes were made in the past that led up to the previous housing crisis. See what a recent report, says about what we could learn from the past to improve the future of housing.

A recent feature published by the Urban Institute delved into the struggles that residents of Southeast Michigan still face after the housing crisis, and explores the rising problems the residents must now face.

A majority of financially struggling households in California are spending more than 30 percent of their incomes on keeping a roof over their heads. Just how heavy is that burden, and what does it mean for the Golden State’s ongoing affordable housing crisis?

While there is still debate about the various factors that contributed to the 2008 financial crisis and the collapse of the housing market, a new paper by the Urban Institute suggests that the poor performance of cash-out refinances, and refinances in ...