In a 5-3 decision in Bank of America Corp. et al. v. City of Miami, Florida , the United States Supreme Court held that the City of Miami was an “aggrieved person” authorized to bring suit under the Fair Housing Act for predatory lending by defendant banks to minorities, but remanded the case on the issue of proximate cause.
During the worst of the housing crisis, foreclosures were everywhere. Vacant, boarded-up homes with overgrown lawns out front littered the streets of the nation, turning blocks into ghost towns and dragging down neighboring property values. Foreclosure News
Updated:Two congressional districts in Texas are racially gerrymandered and must be redrawn, a federal district court ruled this week. ABA Journal Daily News
A Jacksonville, Fla., family won't lose its house because of a foreclosure auction held the day Hurricane Irma blasted through town. Circuit Judge Thomas Beverly agreed Thursday to invalidate the online sale of the Bartram Springs home of Jack and Charmaine Jones and their adult daughter, Jacqueline Jones. Foreclosure News
July 9th's reprint of an AP offering, “Black homeowners struggle as US housing market recovers” makes one wonder if it was an example of AP dredging up material and skewing it for a sob story? The gentleman in the article, Mr. Dorn, bought a home over 20 years ago. He inherited another home. Foreclosure News
Note: This piece uses a true personal narrative and background to thread key themes together for the here and now. This piece is not about me; instead it serves as a reminder that “margin,” either in the literal or the less conventional sense, can create some pretty intense consequences. Foreclosure News
” The phone call came as Raymond Murray neared the bottom of his luck. His wife had died, his career had been ended by injuries, and struggling to get by on his disability check, he had scraped together just enough to pay a lawyer to avoid imminent foreclosure on his modest Brooklyn home. Foreclosure News
