Washington state House committee held preliminary hearing last week, with another scheduled this week, on a  "Foreclosure Fairness Act...

Preliminary study from North Carolina Center for Community Capital is HERE. From Executive Summary: Overall, we observe a lower default rate...

Press release from NY Attorney General Cuomo's Office is HERE . From press release: [ Emphasis Added ]: "In the first law enforceme...

Monday Jan. 5th WSJ story is HERE . (Map within story has data for select areas, but none for Oregon).

Federal Reserve of Boston study of Massachusetts subprime lending is HERE . Tip of Hat to Washington Independent ; their story is HERE . Qu...

First saw Bloomberg News story HERE , which focused on drop in lenders. I expect other news stories will focus less on what happened to len...

Details in the press release from Idaho Attorney General HERE .

Caught a few moments of this on C-SPAN early Thursday. Sponsored by Center for America Progress Asset Building Program . FDIC Chief Sheila B...

While doing some research I ran across the website for Washington State's Department of Financial Institutions and their Division of Co...

Press release HERE from the National Association of Self Employed (NASE) says survey indicates that more than 3 million self employed have...

First saw a reference to this Harvard Latino Law Review article in a Consumer Law and Policy Blog HERE . References federal Truth in Lendi...

Webcasts of different panels from National Housing Forum held earlier this week are available from Office of Thrift Supervision HERE . Chair...

Issued by several consumer groups. Press release is HERE. State scorecardS are HERE . Oregon gets two "F"s, two "P"s and...

An Internet based nationwide National Mortgage Licensing System HERE is picking up steam. Washington state has announced HERE that it'...

Interesting story HERE from WSJ on three state legal actions actions against Countrywide; one of states is Washington. Washington charges ...

Press release on passage of bill in the NY Senate is HERE . (Last week the NY Governor announced agreement to move bill forward, so it appea...

First news account from SF Chronicle HERE on Wednesday night says that several predatory lending bills which were subject of my prior post...

Los Angeles Times story HERE from Knowledgeplex indicates that no less than 10 foreclosure related bills will come before the California ...

News story HERE . Bill number is AB 1830, you can search for it on California Assembly web page HERE .

Story HERE . Makes you kinda wonder about action , or lack thereof, from Oregon Attorney General on predatory lending, no?