renters

That’s the idea that was being tossed around yesterday in the Senate, where several White House officials testified before the Banking Committee on the early failure of federal efforts to control the rising tide of foreclosures.
It was Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) to broach the topic, proposing a plan that would allow struggling homeowners on the [...]

While the plight of homeowners affected by the real estate meltdown has been well-documented, renters too often fall under the radar.

At Newsweek, Sheriff Thomas Dart of Cook County in Chicago offers an unusually personal look at the process of throwing someone out of their home in a foreclosure eviction, something he still often refuses to do. Dart stopped doing evictions after discovering too many instances of owners with no notification by the courts or renters [...]