November 2017 – Home Savers Campaign

Where Evictions Hurt the Most

November 29, 2017

Read this great City Lab post here by Sarah HolderMeasuring the scale of America’s eviction problem has been a challenge—the data just isn’t available. While the U.S. Census bureau promised to start more diligently measuring evictions in 2017, there is not yet a national federal database. City-level records measure formal evictions, but are hard to […]

Detroit: From Motor City to Housing Incubator

November 6, 2017

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Detroit has been struggling to piece together its broken housing market, which has been partly frustrated by the unwillingness of banks to make small mortgages.CreditErin Kirkland for The New York Times; Photo illustration by The New York Times The 2008 financial crisis and 2013 city bankruptcy gutted Detroit’s housingmarket. Now, Detroit is experimenting with unorthodox […]