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Showing videos filed under: mortgage
Sarah Ludwig: Foreclosure Fraud Continues
January 20, 2011"We need to shine a light on the big banks and all their different tentacles," says Sarah Ludwig of the Neighborhood Economic Development Advocacy Project, noting that all too many of the programs put in place to encourage banks to help homeowners fight foreclosure are voluntary, rendering them toothless. Instead, she calls for citizens to be aware of the banks' practices and to think about where we put our money.Sarah Ludwig, The Goldstone Report, and Obama's Op-Ed
January 19, 2011"We need to shine a light on the big banks and all their different tentacles," says Sarah Ludwig of the Neighborhood Economic Development Advocacy Project, noting that all too many of the programs put in place to encourage banks to help homeowners fight foreclosure are voluntary, rendering them toothless. Instead, she calls for citizens to be aware of the banks' practices and to think about where we put our money.Sarah Ludwig: Fighting Foreclosure Fraud
October 28, 2010Sarah Ludwig notes that the foreclosure fraud accusations rocking the nation's biggest banks are just a new round in the abuses that have been going on for years now.David Cay Johnston, The Loaded Chamber, and Sarah Ludwig
October 27, 2010A weak foundation cannot properly support a massive superstructure, as the leaning Tower of Pisa shows. The latest wage data show the disastrous results some of us warned about, although like the famous tower, the economy only lists badly and has not collapsed.Kai Wright & Tony Romano: Public Housing, Private Pain
August 17, 201030,000 people showed up outside of Atlanta in search of Section 8 housing vouchers last week; 62 vouchers were available. To qualify for the vouchers, a family's income is not to exceed 50 percent of the area's median income. That median income for the surrounding area? Just over $31,000 a year.Richard Kim, Public Housing, and Anchor Baby Baiting
August 16, 2010"Who needs gay bashing when you have the Ground Zero mosque?" Richard Kim, senior editor at The Nation, asks guest host Esther Armah. In a week when gay and lesbian couples may see obstacles to their right to marry in California fall away, he notes, right-wing media is strangely silent on the issue. Even Glenn Beck is suddenly sounding a libertarian note.Max Rameau: Take Back the City
March 30, 2010Max Rameau is a longtime activist for land rights and housing, and with mortgages, foreclosures, gentrification and construction playing such a huge role in New York's response to the economic crisis, who better to take us on a walk around the Lower East Side?Tea Party Conspiracies, Max Rameau, and Haiti
March 29, 2010In order to respond, alas, we have to understand, and that means going through the looking glass. So wrote Richard Kim of the tea party movement's latest bogeyman--the Cloward-Piven strategy, which demagogues like Glenn Beck proclaim is the strategy for destroying America and putting in place totalitarian socialism. It sounds ridiculous, Richard notes, and that's precisely why it has such power.FTC Consumer Chief Seeks Jail for 'Rescue' Schemers
March 4, 2010The Huffington Post Investigative Fund has an ongoing series, Hard Times Profiteers, looking into schemes cropping up around the country to take "the last dollar out of people's pockets," as David Vlateck of the Federal Trade Commission says in this video.Financial Reform, Animal Factory, and Student Debt
March 3, 2010Yesterday, we noted that the fangs seem to have been pulled out of the proposed Consumer Financial Protection Agency, and financial reform seems to be quietly fading from the agenda. But our friends at the Roosevelt Institute are in the middle of a groundbreaking conference on market reform, and we asked a few of their guests to join us in studio.
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