Foreclosure Echo - How the Hardest Hit Have Been Left Out of the Economic Recovery

Fisher and Fox demonstrate how ordinary people experienced the foreclosure crisis and how lenders and public institutions failed to protect them.

Sommario

1. The housing crisis; 2. The breakdown of mortgage servicing and loss mitigation; 3. Zombie mortgages and abandoned properties; 4. The benefits and harms of intervention; 5. Rethinking Home: housing post-crisis; 6. Foreclosure or a more sustainable mortgage?; 7. Picking up the pieces and revitalizing neighborhoods; 8. Where do we go from here?; Conclusion; Index.

Info autore

Linda E. Fisher is a Professor of Law at the Law School, Seton Hall University, New Jersey. She has published in the areas of subprime lending, mortgage fraud, and civil rights, has testified before the House Financial Services Committee and has presented to the Federal Trade Commission. She has also been a Network Fellow at the Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard and an American Association of Law Schools Bellow Scholar.Judith Fox is a Clinical Professor of Law at the Law School, University of Notre Dame, Indiana . She directs the Economic Justice Project, a low-income clinic specializing in predatory lending and mortgage law and has served on a number of committees and task forces including, most recently, the Consumer Advisory Board of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and the Indiana Supreme Court's Coalition for Court Access.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Linda E. Fisher, Linda E. Fox Fisher, Judith Fox, Fox Judith
• Editore: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 30.06.2019
• EAN: 9781108415576
• ISBN: 978-1-108-41557-6
• Pagine: 222
• Categorie: Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Diritto > Diritto internazionale, diritto degli stranieri; USA, Banking, LAW / Banking, financial law, United States of America, USA, Financial law: general, Constitution: government & the state, Constitution: government and the state, Banking law, Personal property law