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RISMEDIA, Dec. 7, 2007-This week, the Alliance to Save Energy urged members of the U.S. House of Representatives to adopt an energy package that will save American consumers money while also improving our environment and increasing our nation's energy security. ...
RISMEDIA, Dec. 4, 2007-In response to the Bush Administration's plan to help families avoid foreclosure, tens of thousands of homeowners are refinancing their exotic subprime loans with HUD's new government-backed mortgage product. HUD Secretary Alphonso Jackson announced that more than 33,000 borrowers have already refinanced their subprime home loans with ...
RISMEDIA, Nov. 21, 2007-Nearly 30,000 residents affected by the 2005 Gulf Coast hurricanes will continue to receive housing assistance when the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) assumes control of the Federal Emergency Management Agency's (FEMA) rental program on December 1, 2007. HUD continues to work with its ...
RISMEDIA, Nov. 19, 2007-The Michigan State Housing Development Authority (MSHDA) and the Michigan Hispanic Caucus have announced the release of the latest in a series of tools aimed to make homeownership a reality for Michigan's Hispanic population. ...
RISMEDIA, Nov. 8, 2007-In the midst of the foreclosure crisis striking the nation, Illinois homeowners received some good news; Governor Rod Blagojevich has delivered a state law to help protect consumers from losing their homes. ...
RISMEDIA, Nov. 7, 2007-The following statement was issued by the National Urban League (NUL) in response to a preliminary injunction by the Unites States District Court for the District of Columbia barring the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) from enforcing the "Standards for Mortgagor's Investment in Mortgaged ...
Judge orders a halt to HUD's anti-homeownership rule ...
RISMEDIA, Nov. 5, 2007-As more families displaced by the wildfires in Southern California look for transitional housing, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development is expanding its list of available rental housing and strongly encouraging multifamily property owners and landlords to include their unoccupied housing units in HUD's National ...
By Robert Schroeder, MarketWatch ...
RISMEDIA, Oct. 16, 2007-The Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice launched a new Web site last week to educate consumers and policymakers about the potential benefits that competition can bring to consumers of real estate brokerage services and the barriers that inhibit that competition. Among its features, the Web ...
By Robert Schroeder, MarketWatch ...
RISMEDIA, Oct. 8, 2007-Approximately 700,000 families will have a greater opportunity to find housing or keep the homes they have because of more than $44 million in housing counseling and counseling training grants announced by Housing and Urban Development Secretary Alphonso Jackson. ...
RISMEDIA, Oct. 5, 2007-Speaker Nancy Pelosi was joined by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and other House and Senate Democratic leaders at a news conference this morning in the Capitol to offer a plan to stem the rising tide of home foreclosures created by the subprime mortgage market crisis. Below ...
RISMEDIA, Oct. 2, 2007-(MCT)-When the Federal Reserve lowered interest rates this month, critics complained that Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke was bailing out homeowners who should never have taken out all those wacky no-down-payment, no-documentation, no-fixed-rate mortgage loans. ...
