I have a confession.
I started looked at real estate. What? It wasn’t all me, I have a partner in crime to help me out here. And SHE was filling my inbox with all these really great listings for sell.
At first it was, “Let’s look at these foreclosures “fixer uppers” in poor “up and coming” neighborhoods. [...]
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Tag Archives: housing finance
THE best explanation of the credit crisis that I’ve seen.
I’ve heard everyone- professors, media, finance people, government officials, non-profit leaders (all with their many-armed diagrams) try to explain how the housing/credit crisis all started. Best case scenario, those presentations are boring. Worst case scenario, they leave you more confused than when you started!
Today, I discovered this video, done by a graduate student, explaining [...]
Uses for Neighborhood Stabilization Funds: A Reaction
A recent report done by Enterprise Community Partners found that communities are going a good job of finding creative way to utilize Neighborhood Stabilization funds.
The San Francisco Chronicle wrote an article about the report’s findings. I must say that I am impressed with the different ways the report said that communities are using the funds, however, some of them can still be problematic. Let’s take them one by one.
