Teen goes to law school and aims for the presidency
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BYU Law School’s new legal design lab aims to find solutions to access-to-justice crisis
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House aims to rewrite consumer safeguards
House aims to rewrite consumer safeguards A new plan could dramatically alter consumer protections enacted after the financial crisis. Check out this story on USATODAY.com: http://usat.ly/2q7orOg President Donald Trump will sign an executive order that will rollback some of the financial sector regulations put in place following the global crisis in 2008. Foreclosure News
City Aims to Tweak How it Collects Debts from Homeowners; Some Want Deeper Reforms
Public Advocate James says liens should be transferred to a preservation trust aimed at protecting neighborhoods, not extracting fees. The city's program for collecting overdue property taxes and water bills through the sale of liens would change under a draft Council bill introduced this week-and could be see additional reform if advocates get their way. […]
Group Aims to Preserve Affordable Housing in Chicago
Four years ago, Gabriela Perez was a tenant living in a four-flat in foreclosure, worried her family would be tossed out on the street. Today, Perez and her children remain in the same – but now remodeled – two-bedroom apartment because a local community group, a mission-based developer and a financial backer stepped in to […]
Group aims to preserve affordable housing on gentrifying Northwest Side
This building in Chicago's Albany Park neighborhood, photographed Nov. 9, 2016, was purchased out of foreclosure and later bought by a developer dedicated to preserving affordable housing. This building in Chicago's Albany Park neighborhood, photographed Nov. 9, 2016, was purchased out of foreclosure and later bought by a developer dedicated to preserving affordable housing. Foreclosure […]
Ohio State Law Aims to Reduce ‘Zombie’ Vacant Properties
The measure that took effect on Sept. 28 speeds up foreclosures on vacant and abandoned properties, called zombies because they languish like the living dead. Foreclosure News
Zombie wars: State law aims to reduce blighted properties
The measure taking effect Wednesday speeds up foreclosures on vacant and abandoned properties, called zombies because they languish like the living dead. The legislation was passed in the General Assembly and was signed by Republican Gov. John Kasich . Foreclosure News
Proskauer aims to help lawyers returning from caregiver leave with this benefit
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California university system aims to get clearer picture of students’ housing problems
Racing from her last class of the day at Cal State Long Beach, Shellv Candler had about an hour to get to Wilmington. Her mother was trying to save her a bed at the Doors of Hope Women's Shelter, but curfew was 6:45 sharp. Foreclosure News