Headline News Archive
2024
March
13
- In hospitals, affordable housing gets the long-term investor it needs. Health care systems are increasingly starting to see benefits in building affordable and safe housing, from the improved health of local communities to how much
February
21
- Here’s why you should check your credit report. Credit report mistakes are the leading cause of complaints to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Here’s how to check your report and fix
12
- Nonprofit steps in to provide mortgages where others won't. Home HeadQuarters doesn’t have the resources of a bank. But the Syracuse group has come up with a novel way to finance home
- Pros and cons of second-chance checking accounts. Pros Consumers won’t have to resort to check-cashing services which can come with costly fees that quickly chip away at your funds.
January
18
- Why big banks--and odd allies--oppose a plan to protect banks. Regulators are calling for an increase in the amount of capital — cash-like assets — that banks have to hold to tide them over in
09
- Rent reporting is affecting tenants’ credit scores. In New York City recently, more landlords have started reporting tenants’ rent payments to credit bureaus. While on time payments can help build tenants
2023
November
02
- How real estate commissions work and why they might get lower. In the United States, there’s generally an agent representing the seller and one representing the buyer. The seller pays the commission to both
September
18
- When Wall Street buys most of the homes on your block. First-time buyers, who overwhelmingly rely on mortgages, were often outmatched by cash buyers at the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic, when interest rates plummeted below 3
13
- Amazon launches plan to help ‘underserved’ D.C. families buy homes. The undertaking is part of a $40 million initiative that executives said is meant to help boost homeownership among “underserved groups” in the D
03
- Home insurers cut natural disasters from policies as climate risks grow. Major insurers say they will cut out damage caused by hurricanes, wind and hail from policies underwriting property along coastlines and in wildfire country, according
July
14
- How Philadelphia kept tenants from being evicted. Philadelphia has kept in place one key lockdown-era protection program — at least for the moment. Under this program, if a tenant owes less than $3,000
March
13
- Insurers slashed Hurricane Ian payouts insiders reveal. After years of more frequent and intense storms, national insurance carriers have pulled back from the market and smaller, regional carriers with smaller financial reserves
January
26
- White House unveils Renters Bill of Rights. The Biden administration is releasing a “Blueprint for a Renters Bill of Rights” that highlights the need for clear and fair leases, the
2022
November
01
- Sharp spike in Black, Asian and Latino homeownership. Helped by pandemic-era stimulus programs, Black, Latino and Asian households saw the sharpest increase in homeownership in 2021 since the Great Recession, when all their levels
October
27
- U.S. mortgage rates soar past 7%. Mortgage rates barreled past the 7 percent mark to their highest level since 2002, as the Federal Reserve’s aggressive interest rate increases, meant to combat
September
01
- Bank of America tests no-down-payment mortgages for minorities. Bank of America Corp. started a trial program aimed at helping first-time homebuyers in Black and Hispanic neighborhoods by offering mortgages that don’t
August
- Corporate landlords ‘aggressively’ evicted tenants during pandemic. Four major corporate landlords filed thousands of evictions while federal moratorium orders were still standing, using aggressive tactics to force out tenants at the height
July
25
- We need to keep building houses, even if no one wants to buy. While the challenge for builders, in the short term, might be that they have too many homes and not enough buyers, the challenge for the
June
22
- Justice Department and Meta settle landmark housing discrimination case. Facebook-owner Meta agreed to revamp the social network’s targeted advertising system under a sweeping settlement with the U.S. Justice Department, after the
07
- Massive rent increases hit mobile homes. Surging home prices and rents are cascading down to the country’s mobile home parks, where heightened demand, low supply and an increase in
02
- You can ask Google to take your personal data out of its search results. Google is offering a new tool to anyone who doesn't want their phone number, email or street address and other personal information to be
April
18
- Find out and fix what big data says about you. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau maintains a list of consumer reporting agencies that’s currently 38 pages long. In addition to the big three credit
13
- The federal consumer bureau sued TransUnion over deceptive sales tactics. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau sued the credit-reporting firm TransUnion and a former senior executive — John Danaher, who led the company’s consumer
12
- Aging in place easier with smart home technology. Technology helps all homeowners, but especially seniors, by automating “things that are a pain or difficult to do,” says Michael Miller, author of
March
29
- Your shadow credit score could decide if you get an apartment. The rapid rise of tenant screening is one of the seismic changes to hit the rental market since the Great Recession. Tenant screening companies compile
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