Fannie to Allow Walkaways by On-Time Borrowers: Mortgages (Bloomberg)
Fannie Mae (FNMA) and Freddie Mac will let some borrowers who kept up payments as their homes lost value erase ...
Foreclosed properties are a hot topic at neighborhood meeting (Heights Observer)
The intensity stirred by the issue of foreclosed properties, bank walk-aways, vacant, poorly maintained and otherwise troubled properties in our ...
Cook County Commissioner Lays Out Plan For Vacant Properties (Progress Illinois)
Government has tried, with limited success, to address each new wave of the foreclosure crisis. In Chicago and Cook County, ...
County moves toward establishing a land bank (Gazette News)
LAKE COUNTY – While not as devastated by foreclosures and abandoned properties as Cuyahoga County, Lake County officials and residents have ...
How the government can solve the housing crisis (CNN Opinion)
(CNN) -- Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, and the Federal Housing Administration own about 250,000 foreclosed properties awaiting resale. Hundreds of ...
Mayors, city managers discuss possible county land bank
September 26, 2011 [The News Herald] Former Cuyahoga County Treasurer Jim Rokakis spoke to the Lake County Mayors and City ...
Cuyahoga County land bank transforming neigborhoods hit by foreclosure
October 28, 2010 [WEWS] CLEVELAND - The Cuyahoga County Land Bank is the first of its kind in the country ...
Transforming abondoned properties into parks, housing may get easier
October 21, 2009 [Dayton Daily News] COLUMBUS — Montgomery County would get a new tool to transform vacant and abandoned ...