1 in 7 Washington residents owe on student loans, and that may be a problem

Washington state Attorney General Bob Ferguson is pushing for legislation that would give college borrowers greater safeguards against deceptive loan practices. If that trend continues, Ferguson said, student-loan debt could interfere with the ability of families to buy homes or support the economy, and he noted that some economists have compared it to the bubble […]

3 Anaheim residents, 1 Chino resident facing federal charges for alleged mortgage bribery scam

Three Anaheim residents and a Chino man are among seven defendants facing bribery allegations tied to a Nevada nonprofit created to deal with the national housing foreclosure crisis. According to an indictment unsealed this week at a federal courthouse in Las Vegas, Anaheim residents Benjamin Stuelke, 35, Michelle Acosta, 33, and Art Acosta, 55, are […]

As Downtown Detroit Gentrifies, Longtime Black Residents Fight Illegal Tax Foreclosures

In Detroit, a recent study found that one in four Detroit properties have been subject to property tax foreclosure between 2011 and 2015-many of which may have been illegal. As downtown Detroit becomes increasingly gentrified, thousands of the city's longtime residents-mostly African-American families-have lost their homes to foreclosure. Foreclosure News