Low-Income Americans Face a Harrowing Choice: Food or Housing
The rent and mortgage payments are still too damn high.
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Women Pay More Than Men for Deodorant—and Mortgages
A new study shows that unfair pricing by gender exists across different markets.
How Your Name Could Cost You a Mortgage Loan
Mortgage loan originators discriminate against people with black-sounding names, according to a new study.
Will Rising Mortgage Rates Put an End to the Housing Recovery?
Rising rates will obviously send monthly payments higher, but they'll also affect the market in a more unusual way: They're going to hurt all-cash investor purchases of housing, which have been a boon to the most distressed markets.
Real Utility: Accounting for Energy Costs Makes Mortgage Sense
Backers of a move to add utility bills into home-loan considerations say it will boost energy conservation and create lots of jobs that can't be exported.
Mortgage Interest Deduction on the Chopping Block?
A panel ranging from liberals to libertarians suggests turning the mortgage interest deduction, a sacred cow of the U.S. tax code, into hamburger.
Mortgage Loan Documents Getting an Overhaul
In a sadly unusual move, the federal government shops around simplifications to important loan documents by asking the public to pick a winner from among two designs.
Mixed Messages on Green Homes
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac try to block a municipal program that makes solar roofs affordable for homeowners.
New Hope, Indeed!
Last week our David Rosenfeld used the story of Horatio Bernard, an immigrant from Liberia, to outline the…
What Would Horatio Alger Do?
Thousands of Americans are defying eviction notices and exercising civil disobedience.