Neighborhood Stabilization and the Foreclosure Crisis

Posted by on July 20, 2009

The Latest from Shelterforce: Neighborhood Stabilization and the Foreclosure Crisis

The most recent issue of Shelterforce, now available online, examines methods of neighborhood stabilization amid the ongoing foreclosure crisis:

* Operation Neighborhood Recovery: A first-in-the-nation purchase of nonperforming mortgages by a nonprofit for neighborhood stabilization in New Jersey, by Matthew Brian Hersh; http://tinyurl.com/ksn7jh

Homeownership Done Right: An educated consumer is the Massachusetts Affordable Housing Alliance’s best customer, by David Holtzman; http://tinyurl.com/lg2wld

* Fighting Foreclosure on All Fronts: Cook County Ill. Sheriff Tom Dart made headlines when he refused to evict tenants whose building was foreclosed upon. Kari Lydersen reports on that story and more resident-based efforts. http://tinyurl.com/n8jp6o

Also:

* Paterson, New Jersey’s Great Falls, by Michael L. Powell; http://tinyurl.com/kvqlbs
* The Continued Importance of Fair Lending, by Nandinee K. Kutty; http://tinyurl.com/l2o44z
* Equity 2.0, by Justin Massa; http://tinyurl.com/kt6utn
* Saving Houston’s Allen Parkway Village, by Timothy O’Brien. http://tinyurl.com/nbfcyb

And Even More! Visit Shelterforce.org for the latest in Web-only analysis and reporting, including New Ideas For Federal Rental Assistance, by Reid Cramer and Jeffrey Lubell. http://tinyurl.com/nthmth