The Privatopia Papers

Ms. Bass lives in the Detroit suburb of Oak Park, but her street of red brick ranch houses might be any mature neighborhood in America. Cl...

Illinois License Plates May Get Corporate Ads Sure, but that's thinking small. I think they should just sell naming rights to the counti...

BofA Bulldozing Foreclosed Homes - The Consumerist The bank is working with local housing partnerships to donate some of the houses and pay ...

Angry Homeowners Dump Trash From Abandoned Home - Flash Player Installation The wrong bank for that particular load of trash, maybe, but one...

Wells Fargo Forecloses On, Auctions Off House With Dead Owner Inside - The Consumerist Another story from the bizarre world of foreclosures....

The pace of foreclosures ebbed following the eruption of the "robo-signing" scandal, in which loan servicers approved foreclosure...

HOA troubles pitting neighbor vs. neighbor | CharlotteObserver.com & The Charlotte Observer Newspaper Of the nation's 300,000 homeow...

Michelle Roberts says her family fell victim to an HOA board that refused to recognize the financial hardship they were experiencing. The ...

The poll found that 37% of Californians were cutting back on household expenses such as groceries and gasoline, while 52% were forgoing lu...

Getting Sober in the New Economy As we stated in the "Affordable Housing Myth," are we really doing families with moderate incomes...

BOSSIER CITY, La. (AP) - A south Bossier City homeowners association has sued to force a family to remove a front yard sign supporting the...

Government Considering Renting Foreclosed Homes - WSJ.com The Obama administration is examining ways to pull foreclosed properties off the m...

Data stories: How more Americans are becoming renters And maybe we would be better off as renters...

Bankers draw fire for letting Englewood-area homes become magnets for crime - chicagotribune.com Such legal maneuvers by banks, which in man...

U. of C. professor argues privatization of public assets just like borrowing money - chicagotribune.com Professor Julie Roin studied the pri...

Capitol Weekly: The next new thing: Infrastructure financing districts get close look Fred Pilot sent this link to a writeup on a new scheme...

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Quartzsite in an uproar, in 'state of emergency' due to video on YouTube The Western Arizona town of Quartzsite was in a state of up...

Arkansas Town Draws a Line on Allowing Clubs - NYTimes.com Be careful before starting a Boy Scout troop in Gould, Ark. Or a Harry Potter fan...

The Banks Are Still Robo-Signing | FDL News Desk Two stories yesterday, one from the AP and the other from Reuters, detail the fact that the...