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The rise of buy now, pay later products, which often aren’t reported to credit bureaus, could affect borrowers’ ability to buy a home and sustain homeownership.
Widespread credit blemishes may well be holding back our economic recovery The seven million foreclosures that occurred between 2004 and 2015 fueled the Great Recession. But the role of adverse public records is just as significant.Student loan forgiveness is no free lunch We need to figure out how to help displaced students prepare for the tax bills yet to come.Why Zika virus is sticking around—and what we can do about it Zika isn’t strictly a mosquito-borne virus; it can also spread from person to person via sexual contact—and an alarming number of women don’t know that.What will it take to fight zombie mortgages? The walking dead haunt the land of real estate finance.How NeighborWorks America’s programs help underserved borrowers get and keep their own homes If we want to maintain a healthy housing market, we need to find effective ways to help minority households become sustainable homeowners.Transforming housing, transforming lives? In No Simple Solutions: Transforming Public Housing in Chicago, Susan Popkin chronicles the effects of the largest-ever public housing redevelopment effort.
