Unnatural disaster strikes
A Florida county that has been particularly hard-hit by the housing crisis is seeking “disaster area” status.
In St. Lucie County, thousands of homes stand vacant or unfinished. A county commissioner believes the crisis has reached disaster proportions. If the county is declared a disaster area, it could receive [...]
20/20 subprime-sight
Martin Eakes of the Center For Responsible Lending recently distributed a press release in which he reacts to President Obama’s plan to fix the housing crisis that plagues America. Nothing like damage control for the image after your business was directly involved in causing the subprime mortgage crisis to [...]
Bad credit plus personal loans equals crisis
A mixture of bad credit and personal loans has caused millions of Americans to face foreclosure on their homes. Now President Barack Obama has revealed his plan to help up to 9 million Americans keep their homes.
Obama will use money from the $700 billion [...]
While some Americans were taking out small payday loans just to buy groceries, the U.S. government approved a plan to give the Treasury $700 billion to resolve the housing crisis. Now a congressional watchdog panel is saying the Treasury has done nothing to ensure the money was used to stabilize [...]