I wrote recently about a problem many communities are facing: ghost neighborhoods filled with empty, repossessed houses ripe for crime. Some cities, anxious to maintain property values, have taken to ...

What if people who lost their homes to foreclosure could rent them back from the lenders that repossessed them? That idea, which has lingered on the outskirts of the housing-crisis debate, got a boost ...

For sale or rent by distressed owner: 248,000 homes. That’s how many residential properties the U.S. government now has in its possession, the result of record numbers of people defaulting on ...

The sale of repossessed houses at knockdown prices is unfair, unconstitutional, and a human rights and dignity issue, as it leaves financially distressed individuals with huge debts, when they have ...

The federal government has more than 65,000 houses for sale around the country, a stockpile that includes attractive homes priced at more than $100,000 as well as ”some dogs.” All these properties ...

The federal government has more than 65,000 houses for sale around the country, a stockpile that includes attractive homes priced at more than $100,000 as well as ”some dogs.” All these properties ...