homeownership
The $8,000 tax credit program for first-time home buyers helped prop up the sagging real estate market in 2010. And there's still one group who can still capitalize on the opportunity.
The responses are from an online survey of over 1,300 homeowners and around 700 renters taken between the January 20 and
It's easy to forget, but foreclosures affect far more than the families losing their homes. Large numbers of foreclosures suck the life out of communities.
We should strive to give a bit more attention to these and other promising policies in the months ahead. This is an issue that deserves a much larger profile in 2011 than it has received in 2010.
WHAT'S HAPPENING
You have a generation of recent grads who have no purchasing power and who, not by choice, will remain childless. How's that for a healthy and robust middle class?
I've been telling my friends for a decade that housing is a bad investment. These are real housing prices over the past century
If the Obama Administration is serious about protecting the average American, then Fannie and Freddie must have a public role in the financial markets. Don't throw out the baby with the bath water.
I'd love for more Americans to realize the dream of owning their own home. But we need to be diligent enough to do our own research and not leave our financial futures in the hands of others.
As the lessons of the mortgage crisis are studied by historians in the coming years, a significant and widely overlooked consequence that will no doubt emerge is how it's set back the economic mobility of minorities in this country.
In the mid to late 90s, we never favored eliminating the GSEs. Our beef was with the weak enforcement of existing regulations