• Oregon Foreclosure Law Floods Housing Counselors
• Source: Oregonian   |   Oregon   |   March 23, 2012
• If you want to see a housing counselor in the Portland area, get in line. You're likely to wait weeks to get an appointment, and the situation might be about to get worse as a new state program takes effect.

• Ban on Texas Immigrant Housing Law Upheld by Court
• BY: The Associated Press   |   Texas   |   March 22, 2012
• A federal appeals court Wednesday upheld a lower court ruling that stopped a Dallas suburb's ban on illegal immigrants seeking housing.

• L.A. Councilman Curbs the ‘Mansionization’ of Studio City
• BY: Tina Trenkner   |   February 2012
• Paul Krekorian crafted a compromise to curb the building of large homes on small lots that satisfies all stakeholders.

• Woodbridge Housing Authority Is First to Turn to Wind Energy
• BY: Caroline Cournoyer   |   January 12, 2012
• The agency in Woodbridge Township, N.J., is using wind energy to save more than $6 million and keep greenhouse gases out of the air.

• Beyond Performance Measurement
• BY: John Feinblatt   |   December 28, 2011
• Governments are beginning to depend on data analytics not just to identify problems but to solve them.
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• Bargainers Agree to Raise Size of FHA-Backed Loans
• BY: The Associated Press   |   Nation   |   November 17, 2011
• The U.S. House and Senate have agreed to a deal that would increase the size of mortgages insured by the Federal Housing Administration.

• Ohio County Demolishes Homes to Remove Blight
• BY: Jessica Mulholland   |   November 2011
• A land bank knocks down foreclosed homes to stabilize Cleveland-area neighborhoods -- all at the lender’s expense.

• Column: Housing Policy Deserves a Demotion
• BY: Peter Harkness   |   November 2011
• GOVERNING Publisher Emeritus Peter Harkness says it may be time for government to get out of the business of promoting homeownership.
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• Editorial Round-Up: Obama's Mortgage Refinancing Solution
• BY: Dylan Scott   |   Nation   |   October 27, 2011
• A round-up of the nation's newspapers' response to Obama's mortgage refinancing plan.
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• Foreclosure Probe Explained: What State AGs Want from Big Banks
• BY: Stateline   |   October 26, 2011
• A year ago, all 50 states launched an investigation into some of the nation’s biggest banks, accusing them of using illegal practices to cheat homeowners and worsen the foreclosure crisis.

• Greening Public Housing
• BY: Caroline Cournoyer   |   October 20, 2011
• Indianapolis is among a few cities in the country making public housing a sustainable way to live.

• Sacramento Offers 'Wheels to Work' for All
• BY: Caroline Cournoyer   |   October 17, 2011
• People can't secure jobs without showing up to interviews. Sacramento County is making sure homeless people can.

• Saving Homeowners and Stabilizing Communities
• BY: Dylan Scott   |   October 13, 2011
• A Boston-based community development group is helping foreclosed homeowners keep their homes and stabilizing neighborhoods hit hard by the recession.

• Death of the Mortgage Interest Deduction?
• BY: Penelope Lemov   |   September 21, 2011
• The feds are talking about ending the popular tax expenditure, which could be positive and negative for state and local economies.
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• The Trouble with Housing
• BY: Penelope Lemov   |   September 15, 2011
• For state and local revenues to improve, housing sales need to improve. The problem is that the outlook for housing isn't very pretty.
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