Nation Topics - Housing and Homelessness | The Nation

Just after its six-month anniversary, the last occupation in New England was evicted. Freed from maintaining camp life, will the occupiers' momentum return?

Ignoring the signs of dire need, the government is slashing its housing budget.

An unlikely grassroots coalition is keeping residents in their homes, one property at a time.

Second-lien debt could be a greater threat to bank solvency than the subprime disaster of 2008.

In California's Central Valley, the collapse of the housing bubble is causing acute misery.

Camden, New Jersey, stands as a warning of what huge pockets of America could turn into.

Angelo Mozilo, former CEO of Countrywide Financial, has just agreed to pay $67.5 million SEC fine. But the landmark 2008 settlement with Bank of America, which had acquired Countrywide that year, has done little to help defrauded homeowners.

Developing policy solutions to reduce inequality is not difficult. Mustering political will to enact them is.

The foreclosure crisis is now hitting even the safest borrowers. That makes passing the Right to Rent Act, which would enable homeowners who can't get loan modifications to stay in their homes, even more critical.

Legal remedies are not strong enough to save defrauded citizens from losing their homes.