Archives For: Urban Institute
Urban Institute: Streamlined Home Refinancing Program Potential Benefits
The Urban Institute published a blog post reflecting on the success of the Home Affordable Refinance Program (HARP) and exploring how the introduction of a similar program could help borrowers today.
8 Apr 2021
Disaster Reporting in the United States
The Urban Institute published a report including a summary of the losses from major disasters, both in data from FEMA and in data on billion-dollar disasters published by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
2 Aug 2019
Urban Institute: Options for Reforming the Mortgage Servicing Compensation Model
The Urban Institute published a report examining three options for the mortgage servicing compensation structure.
19 Apr 2019
Urban Institute: Responding to a Crisis: The National Foreclosure Mitigation Counseling Program
The Urban Institute issued a research report outlining the impact of the National Foreclosure Mitigation Counseling (NFMC) program.
13 Feb 2019
Reforming the FHA?s Foreclosure and Conveyance Processes
The Urban Institute’s Housing Finance Policy Center Mortgage Servicing Collaborative released a report addressing how Federal Housing Administration (FHA) foreclosure and conveyance processes can be changed to bring down costs and create efficiencies.
28 Feb 2018
What?s Wrong in Servicing?
DS News published an article highlighting a recent online discussion organized by the Urban Institute that brought industry experts together to explore mortgage servicing costs, complexities and risks.
28 Jul 2017
Urban Institute: Urban Blight and Public Health: Addressing the Impact of Substandard Housing, Abandoned Buildings, and Vacant Lots
Recently, the Urban Institute issued a report authored by Senior Research Associate Joseph Schilling and Columbia University Associate Director of Nonprofit Management Programs Erwin de Leon. The report explores the affects blight has on the health of individuals and neighborhoods and presents initial findings on interventions designed to address them.
17 May 2017
Urban Institute Launches Servicing Collaborative
National Mortgage News published an article discussing a new initiative created by the Urban Institute’s Housing Finance Policy Center that aims to address rising mortgage servicing costs.
8 Feb 2017
Is it D?j? Vu All Over Again with Delinquencies?
DS News published an article discussing findings from the Urban Institute’s December 2016 Housing Chartbook.
19 Dec 2016
Industry Experts Talk Emerging Mortgage Servicing Issues
DS News released an article discussing a recent panel that took place at the Urban Institute.
17 Aug 2016