here are always two bottoms to a housing market. Here’s a great article that explains the first (new construction home starts) and the second bottom (home values.

Here’s a link to where I get all my cool graphs and charts.  Many thanks to Bill McBride who runs Calculated Risk.

Here’s the article on FHA’s solvency. What’s the plan if the FHA mortgage insurance fund runs out of money?

Here is a link to our new federal mortgage regulator the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

Here’s the Seattle Weekly story on the local Shawn Portmann mortgage fraud case. And here’s the latest: Shawn Portmann Pleads Guilty.

Here’s the new Wells Fargo lawsuit accusing FHA of mortgage fraud with their FHA loan program.

…and the Morgan Stanley lawsuit alleging racial discrimination in their subprime lending practices during the bubble.

Here is the press release posted on 40 companies served w/consent orders for harming homeowners in WA State via foreclosure rescue fraud scams.

I’ve been looking for USDA delinquency stats….and I think I found them here. 

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