Subject: Resources

• Report Finds Discrimination in REO Marketing and Maintenance

  

  In a new report, “The Banks Are Back, Our Neighborhoods Are Not,” the National Fair Housing Alliance examines REO properties in nine major U.S. cities, finding incidents of discrimination in the care and maintenance of properties, with foreclosed properties in white areas being much better. maintained and marketed than those in neighborhoods of color. more

• Report: Older Populations Face Housing Affordability Challenges

  

  A new report from the Center for Housing Policy, “Housing an Aging Population – Are We Prepared?” finds that older adults are more likely than younger adults to have housing affordability challenges. more

• CAP Report Argues Shared Appreciation Strategy for GSEs

  

  In “Sharing the Pain and Gain in the Housing Market,”, the Center for American Progress makes the case for why the government-controlled mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac should embrace a targeted principal reduction strategy for deeply underwater borrowers by way of shared appreciation modifications. more

• Out of Reach 2012: America’s Forgotten Housing Crisis

  

  The annual report from the National Low Income Housing Coalition finds that rents are unaffordable to full-time working people in every community across the country. more

• Multifamily Foreclosures and Over-Mortgaging in NYC

  

  Over-mortgaged and foreclosed multifamily buildings increase the risk of deterioration of nearby buildings and raise costs for private owners and New York City in the form of additional Emergency Repair Program (ERP) expenditures, according to a study from Citizens Housing & Planning Council. more

• Measuring Outcomes of Financial Capability Programs: Tools for Practitioners

  

  A compilation of outcome indicators and data collection tools to gauge the impacts of a range of financial capability coaching, counseling, training, and technical assistance initiatives on the lives of individuals and families. From Success Measures at NeighborWorks America more

• Criminalizing Crisis: The Criminalization of Homelessness in U.S. Cities

  

  A new report from the National Law Center on Homelessness & Poverty looks at how local laws across the country are increasingly criminalizing homelessness. more

• Lost Ground, 2011: Disparities in Mortgage Lending and Foreclosure

  

  New research from the Center for Responsible Lending finds that we’re not even halfway through the foreclosure crisis, but patterns in mortgage products and borrowers are quickly emerging. more

• Finding Common Ground: Coordinating Housing and Education Policy to Promote Integration

  

  A new report from Poverty & Race Research Action Council and the National Coalition on School Diversity, looks at research on the relationship between government housing programs and school segregation. more

• Report Looks at Technology’s Roll in Civic Engagement and Local Government

  

  A new report from the New America Foundation looks at how local governments in California are experimenting with technologies to engage the public and improve services. more