Resources

 

Organizations

Center for American Progress

Center for Responsible Lending

Enterprise Community Partners

Local Initiatives Support Coalition

National Community Stabilization Trust

National Housing Conference/Center for Housing Policy

NeighborWorks

The Reinvestment Fund

Woodstock Institute

 

Tools/Presentations/Webinars

Foreclosure-Response.org, Maintained by the Center for Housing Policy, KnowledgePlex, Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC), and the Urban Institute, this site offers resources to help states and localities respond to the foreclosure crisis.

National Neighborhood Indicators Partnership (NNIP) Foreclosure Resources. NNIP’s data intermediary partners in 35 regions have been at the forefront of analyzing the effects of foreclosures on neighborhoods and developing data-driven responses to the crisis. This webpage provides their websites, presentations, publications, tools, and protocols.

 

Readings 

2010
REO and Vacant Properties: Strategies for Neighborhood Stabilization. Federal Reserve Bank of Boston and Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland, 2010.

2009
Communities at Risk: How the Foreclosure Crisis is Damaging Urban Areas and What Is Being Done About It Living Cities. Living Cities, 2009.

Community Development Investment Review: Foreclosure Issue. Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, 2009.

Neighborhood Responses to the Foreclosure Crisis. Kris Nelson. Center for Urban and Regional Affairs, 2009.

Purchasing Properties at Scale: Lessons on Acquiring REOs During the Foreclosure Process from Pioneering Projects in New Jersey, Phoenix, and the Twin Cities. Living Cities, 2009.

Regional Resilience in the Face of Foreclosures: Evidence from Six Metropolitan Areas. Todd Swanstrom et al., 2009.

Tenants: Innocent Victims of the Nation’s Foreclosure Crisis. Vicki Been and Allegra Glashausser. Albany Government Law Review 2(1):2-27 (2009).

The Impacts of Foreclosures on Families and Communities. G. Thomas Kingsley et al., The Urban Institute, 2009.

The Untold Costs of Subprime Lending: Examining the Links among Higher‐Priced Lending, Foreclosures and Race in California. Carolina Reid and Elizabeth Laderman. Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, 2009.

Stabilizing Communities Affected by Foreclosures: Lessons Learned from Vacant and Abandoned Properties Initiatives, A Foreclosure Response Working Paper. Maya Brennan. Center for Housing Policy, 2009.

2008
Community Response to the Foreclosure Crisis: thoughts on Local Interventions. Dan Immergluck. Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta Community Affairs, 2008.

Defaulting on the Dream: States Respond to America’s Foreclosure Crisis. The PEW Charitable Trusts, 2008.

Foreclosed: State of the Dream. Amaad Rivera, et al., United for a Fair Economy, 2008.

How To Spend $3.92 Billion: Stabilizing Neighborhoods By Addressing Foreclosed and Abandoned Properties. Alan Mallach. Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia Community Affairs Department, 2008.

Nonprofit Strategies for 1- to 4-unit REO Properties: An Analytical Framework. Daniel Fleischman. NeighborWorks America and Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies, 2009.

Tackling the Mortgage Crisis: Ten Action Steps for State Government. Alan Mallach. The Brookings Institution, 2008.

Transforming Foreclosed Properties into Community Assets. Furman Center for Real Estate and Urban Policy, 2008.

2005
The Municipal Cost of Foreclosures: A Chicago Case Study. William C. Apgar et al., Homeownership Preservation Foundation, 2005.