Attorney General Maura Healey recently announced the creation of the Neighborhood Renewal Division. This new division, has been created from the AG’s Abandoned Housing Initiative (AHI), a program created in 1995 to address abandoned properties.READ MORE
Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies HUD Regulations and Procedures Concerning Mortgages Near Foreclosure/End-stage Default
Rachel Bratt, a Senior Research Fellow at the Joint Center for Housing Studies and former visiting scholar at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, authored several Issue Briefs, offering insights about HUD’s regulations and proceduresREAD MORE
Fixing Up after Tearing Down: The Impact of Demolitions on Residential Investment
Daniel Kuhlmann, assistant professor of community and regional planning at Iowa State University recently authored a paper, suggesting that demolishing abandoned houses may lead nearby property owners to better maintain their homes. From the Abstract:READ MORE
New York State One-Year Foreclosure Moratorium Law Proposed
New York Assembly Bill 10553 proposes a ban on foreclosure actions for at least a year. New York foreclosure attorney Bruce J. Bergman presents several concerns from the perspective of mortgage servicers. Though he dismissesREAD MORE