Headline News Archive

2021

September

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• How you pay the rent may help your mortgage application. Later this month, a group of renters in the United States will get a new break when they try to become homeowners: Their history of

02

• New York extends eviction moratorium to January. New York State lawmakers agreed to extend sweeping protections against evictions into next year. The new agreement, which extends the moratorium through Jan.15 and was

August

26

• About 89% of rental assistance funds have not been distributed. The Emergency Rental Assistance Program, funded in the two federal pandemic relief packages passed over the last year, sputtered along in July, with just $1.7 billion

19

• CFPB keeps pressure on mortgage companies to help homeowners. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has warned mortgage servicers to take proactive steps to assist borrowers, including dedicating resources and staffers to stay in contact

17

• Is there racism in the deed to your home?. Racial covenants were used across the United States, and though they are now illegal, the ugly language remains in countless property records. In Seattle and

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• The stigma of a scarlet E. Eviction cases are a stubborn blot on any renter’s history. They are nearly impossible to scrub away, even if the tenant made good

03

• Biden administration moves to block evictions in most of U.S.. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued a moratorium on evictions for 60 days for U.S. counties with “substantial and high

• CDC issues new eviction ban for most of US through Oct. 3. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Tuesday issued a new moratorium on evictions that would last until October 3, as the Biden administration sought

• After the eviction moratorium, here’s what renters need to know. Tenants of single-family homes financed by the federal government, specifically the departments of Housing and Urban Development, Agriculture, and Veterans Affairs, are still protected through

02

• A tsunami of deferred debt is about to hit homeowners. While Congress approved $10 billion in federal assistance to help homeowners pay off debt, the program is moving so slowly that protections are expiring before states

• Pelosi pide a Biden extender moratoria a desahucios. La presidenta de la Cámara de Representantes, Nancy Pelosi, y otros legisladores demócratas exhortaron el domingo al gobierno del presidente Joe

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• Pandemic eviction crisis leads to greater tenant protections. In a mostly empty conference room at a Virginia cultural arts center, Tara Simmons was looking for someone who might help her stave off eviction.

July

30

• Evictions looming, Biden fails to get Congress to extend ban. A nationwide eviction moratorium is set to expire Saturday after President Joe Biden and Democrats in Congress worked furiously but ultimately failed to align on

28

• AP-NORC poll: Inequity in community support for older adults. Many Americans believe their communities are doing a good job meeting the needs of older adults, but white people may be better equipped than people

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• Día 20: Cuentas claras, convivencia larga. Compartir los gastos con otra persona puede ser un verdadero alivio. Pero solo si se establecen con claridad los términos del acuerdo.

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• Los programas de estímulo económico llegan a su fin. ¿Qué hacer?. La moratoria a los desalojos y los préstamos educativos están por expirar. También los beneficios por desempleo y las

02

• Congress considers credit-reporting overhaul. House Committee on Financial Services chair Maxine Waters, D-Calif., said that the House passed two bills out of committee before the pandemic

01

• Rental assistance fell victim to politics, bureaucracy. Nationwide, state leaders set aside at least $2.6 billion from the CARES Act’s Coronavirus Relief Fund to prop up struggling renters, but a year

June

29

• CFPB approves new foreclosure protections, but not blanket ban. Under the new rule, from Aug. 31, 2021 through Dec. 31, 2021, mortgage servicers may only refer 120-day delinquent accounts for foreclosure provided at least one of three new

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• She wanted to stay. Her landlord wanted her out. A vast judicial machine that evicted tenants at more than double the national average in the years before the pandemic is revving up after months

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• CDC extends eviction moratorium through July. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has extended a moratorium on evictions until the end of July. The ban had been set to expire

23

• CFPB to adopt mortgage moratorium rule with some exclusions. The U.S. consumer watchdog weeks will adopt a rule requiring mortgage servicers to give struggling homeowners until next year to resume repayments, but is

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• Mobile home owners fear evictions as pandemic protections end. The pandemic hit owners of mobile homes especially hard. In August, the Urban Institute, an economic and social policy think tank, reported that 35 percent of

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• When no landlord will rent to you, where do you go?. Having few other options, those whose incomes are extremely low are more and more finding shelter not in apartments but in roadside motels or aging

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• More than a third of consumers found errors in their credit reports. For about 1 in 10 people in the Consumer Reports study, errors were related to their financial data: unrecognized payments, payments wrongly reported as late, or debt