News & Notes: Foreclosure crisis

Policy Matters Ohio reports on Ohio foreclosure rates in 2007

April 16, 2008

In its annual survey of foreclosure rates in Ohio, Policy Matters Ohio found that foreclosures are still on the rise around the state [...]

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categories: Foreclosure crisis

Cleveland City Council hosts 'Fighting Foreclosure and Abandonment Forum'

February 27, 2008

This morning, Cleveland City Council is hosting the "Fighting Foreclosure and Abandonment Forum" [...]

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categories: Foreclosure crisis, Housing policy, In the community, Predatory lending

The community land trust: 'a virtually foreclosure-free safe harbor'

February 7, 2008

The Boston Globe ran an editorial on the success CLTs have had promoting stable and secure homeownership [...]

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categories: Foreclosure crisis, Housing policy, Community land trusts

Boston Globe profiles Dudley Street CLT, a 'shelter from foreclosures'

January 24, 2008

The Boston Globe offers a profile of the Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative, a neighborhood group in Boston that has had remarkable success using the community land trust model to foster lower-income homeownership while avoiding the foreclosures that have decimated other working-class neighborhoods. [...]

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categories: Community land trusts, Foreclosure crisis

Community Land Trust mortgages have exceptionally low foreclosure rate

December 3, 2007

Update: The National CLT Network survey is now available. [...]

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categories: Community land trusts, Foreclosure crisis

90.3's Sound of Ideas: The Case for a Land Bank

November 13, 2007

This morning, 90.3 WCPN's Sound of Ideas program aired a discussion on plans for a countywide land bank--modeled on the Land Bank in Genesee County, Michigan [...]

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categories: Foreclosure crisis, Housing policy

Columbus Dispatch on Ohio House Bill 138: Timely filing of deeds after sheriff's sales

November 3, 2007

This week, the Columbus Dispatch ran an editorial calling for passage of HB 138, which would allow sheriff's departments to file deeds after sales of foreclosed properties at sheriff's sale. [...]

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categories: Foreclosure crisis, Housing policy

The Foreclosure Crisis: Shaping the Consumer Response, Friday Nov. 9

October 29, 2007

Organize! Ohio and Bromley & Associates are sponsoring a one-day conference entitled "The Foreclosure Crisis--Shaping the Consumer Response," [...]

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categories: Foreclosure crisis, Housing policy, Predatory lending

County Treasurer Rokakis in the Washington Post on Cleveland's foreclosure crisis

October 4, 2007

Cuyahoga County Treasurer Jim Rokakis wrote an op-ed piece in the Washington Post on Cleveland's foreclosure crisis [...]

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categories: Foreclosure crisis

Policy Matters Ohio report on foreclosure growth in 2006

April 30, 2007

Foreclosure filings in Cuyahoga County increased 24% from 2005 to 2006, according to Policy Matters Ohio [...]

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categories: Foreclosure crisis