In the News

• 9/20/2020 – Coronavirus Pandemic Threatens to Widen Racial Homeownership Gap (Wall Street Journal)
• 9/18/2020 – Wall Street home loans aren’t looking great in this crisis (MarketWatch)
• 9/17/2020 – A Million Mortgage Borrowers Fall Through Covid-19 Safety Net (Wall Street Journal)
• 9/11/2020 – Landlords of Color Hit Hardest as COVID-19 Cuts Into Rental Payments (GlobeSt.com)
• 9/11/2020 – Small Mortgages Are Hard to Get, Even Where Home Prices Are Low (Pew Charitable Trusts)
• 9/11/2020 – The flip side of Trump's eviction ban: Landlords face big crunch (Politico)
• 9/10/2020 – How homeowners have gained a financial advantage during the pandemic (Marketplace)
• 9/10/2020 – For Lower-Credit Homeowners, Refinancing Is Harder, but Not Hopeless (NerdWallet)
• 9/2/2020 – New project could give credit scores to millions of Americans (WUSA9)
• 8/19/2020 – It Will Take Years for People of Color to Recover From the Covid-19 Fallout (Medium)
• 8/17/2020 – Almost 3 Million Homeowners May Not Qualify for COVID Relief (DS News)
• 8/14/2020 – Families need a lifeline, but Trump’s regulator tosses them an anchor (Washington Post)
• 8/13/2020 – A ‘Middle Finger’ to Struggling Families: How a New Fee Is About to Make Refinancing Your Mortgage a Lot More Expensive (Money)
• 8/8/2020 – The number of Americans skipping mortgage payments is falling — except among these borrowers (MarketWatch)
• 7/31/2020 –The COVID-19 Rent Crisis in 4 Charts (U.S. News & World Report)
• 7/28/2020 – Millions of Americans Could Soon Become Homeless as Protections Expire (Realtor.com)
• 7/27/2020 – How the eviction crisis across the U.S. will look (CNBC)
• 7/24/2020 – Millions of Americans May Face Evictions As Protections Expire (NBC Nightly News, 15:45)
• 7/24/2020 – ‘They're going to fall off a cliff’: August set to bring new financial anguish as coronavirus aid lifelines expire (ABC News)
• 7/22/2020 – Menendez bill would bar Fannie, Freddie from charging forbearance fees (Politico)
• 7/15/2020 – Millions of Americans have their mortgages in forbearance programs—here’s why those using private lenders may face bigger challenges (CNBC)
• 7/6/2020 – Evictions are likely to skyrocket this summer as jobs remain scarce. Black renters will be hard hit. (Washington Post)
• 7/3/2020 – Covid-19 and housing: ‘A crisis on top of a crisis’ (Nevada Current)
• 7/3/2020 – Rent cliff looms in July as eviction moratoriums expire (Politico)
• 6/28/2020 – Coronavirus IX: Evictions: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO) (YouTube)
• 6/24/2020 – Will COVID-19 Worsen the Housing Crisis? (WNYC Studios)
• 6/13/2020 – Coronavirus could widen black wealth gap (WashingtonPost)
• 6/3/2020 – A Look At Housing Inequality And Racism In The U.S. (Forbes)
• 6/3/2020 – The housing emergency most harms people of color:’ Black Americans face an unequal housing market — and coronavirus could make it worse (MarketWatch)
• 5/25/2020 – Mortgage Credit Tightens, Creating Drag on Any Economic Recovery (Wall Street Journal)
• 5/21/2020 – Home sales dropped nearly 18% in April, while decline in inventory pushed prices to a record high (CNBC)
• 5/15/2020 – Getting Help With Your Mortgage (New York Times)
• 5/15/2020 – Mortgage Relief That Comes With a $4,000 Bill (New York Times)
• 5/12/2020 – Forbearance becomes a ‘Scarlet Letter’ on credit reports (HousingWire)
• 5/9/2020 – The Mortgage Market Never Got Fixed After 2008. Now It's Breaking Again. (Wall Street Journal)
• 5/9/2020 – How the coronavirus pandemic could forever change home buying and mortgage lending (MarketWatch)
• 5/5/2020 – New home listings in April were nearly cut in half (HousingWire)
• 5/1/2020 – Fannie Mae Releases Q1 Earnings - Shocks Market with Forbearance Estimates (MortgageMedia)
• 4/24/2020 – Struggling Borrowers Want To Pause Their Mortgage Payments. It Hasn’t Been Easy (Wall Street Journal)
• 4/23/3030 – Getting a Mortgage-Payment Break Isn’t the Boon Many Expected (Wall Street Journal)
• 4/22/2020 – Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac will only require servicers to advance 4 months of payments on loans in forbearance (Housing Wire)
• 4/17/2020 – Housing and civil rights coalition demands federal liquidity facility for servicers (Housing Wire)
• 4/13/2020 – The COVID-19 Pandemic Requires Bigger And Different Thinking Than 2008 (Issues and Insights)
• 4/10/2020 – The Trump administration may turn a health crisis into a housing crisis (CNN Business Perspective)
• 4/10/2020 – In a Major Credit Tightening Move, JPMorgan Chase Caps Warehouse Credit (Inside Mortgage Finance)
• 4/7/2020 – Calabria: No Servicer Liquidity Facility Coming, but GSEs May Pull Servicing from Struggling Companies (Housing Wire)
• 4/3/2020 – Mortgage servicers teeter near crisis that regulators saw coming (American Banker)
• 4/1/2020 – A Federal Liquidity Solution for the Mortgage Servicing Industry (Housing Wire)
• 4/1/2020 – Mortgage Help Is Available during the Coronavirus Pandemic, but What’s Offered Can Vary—Here’s What You Need to Know (CNBC)
• 3/24/2020 – Mortgage Industry Lays Out Its Case for Widespread Coronavirus Emergency Relief (Housing Wire)