Foreclosure

Jul 19 2012

Partner on homebuyer education workshop

The city of Palmdale, in partnership with ClearPoint Credit Counseling Solutions, will host a homebuyer education workshop on Saturday, Aug. 25, from 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., at the Palmdale City Council Chamber, 38300 Sierra Highway, Suite B, in Palmdale.

Jul 12 2012

Document signed by Gov. Brown

The California Homeowner Bill of Rights, sponsored by Attorney General Kamala D. Harris, was signed into law Wednesday by Gov. Edmund G. Brown Jr.

Jun 28 2012

California dwellings among those targeted

Bank of America is preparing to sell off hundreds of foreclosed homes in bulk as part of its ongoing effort to clear out its inventory of distressed assets.

Citing unnamed industry sources, Reuters reported late Thursday that B of A has put out word to institutional investors that it is accepting bids on up to 500 mostly vacant, single-family homes in California, Georgia, Florida and several other states. B of A inherited at least some of the properties four years ago when it acquired Countrywide Financial, which had been the country’s largest subprime lender.

Juliana D. Norwood  |   OW Staff Writer
Jun 14 2012

City Council votes to improve Foreclosure Registry Ordinance

On the day before the Los Angeles City Council voted on a set of amendments to strengthen the city’s Foreclosure Registry Ordinance, community members and L.A. city sanitation workers delivered bags of trash from a vacant foreclosed home to a bank that’s one of L.A.’s largest holders of vacant foreclosed properties, Bank of New York Mellon.

Juliana D. Norwood  |   OW Staff Writer
May 24 2012

Crime and health hazards

As the foreclosure crisis in Los Angeles continues, a group of residents and members of Service Employees International Union (SEIU Local 721), the Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment (ACCE) and Good Jobs L.A. led a tour of blighted bank-owned foreclosed properties and asked the city to begin assessing the banks with fines under the Foreclosure Registry Ordinance.

Across Black America

Here’s a look at African American people and issues making headlines throughout the country.
 

Alabama
Freeman A. Hrabowski, president of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, will address the annual African American Business Council luncheon on June 28. Hrabowski, who is chairman of President Barack Obama’s Advisory Commission on Education Excellence for African Americans, has a national reputation for his work studying the performance of minority students in math and science. Hrabowski, named one of the 10 best college presidents in the country by Time magazine, was a child leader in the Civil Rights Movement in Birmingham in the 1960s.
 

Arkansas
The Liberty Counsel filed a motion and a brief in United States District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas seeking to intervene on behalf of a Concepts of Life crisis pregnancy center to defend against a suit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union and the Center for Reproductive Rights. The groups seek to impose a permanent injunction before the Human Heartbeat Protection Act goes into effect July 18. Liberty Counsel also filed a brief opposing the ACLU’s request for an injunction. The “Heartbeat” bill states that when a woman seeks an abortion at or after the 12th week, doctors must test for a fetal heartbeat before an abortion is performed and inform the pregnant mother that the child in her womb has a heartbeat. If a heartbeat is detected, a woman cannot have an abortion, except in cases of rape, incest, and if a mother’s life is in danger. “As we promised when the legislation was introduced, Liberty Counsel will defend this law without reservation for the people of Arkansas, born and pre-born,” said Matt Staver, founder and chairman of Liberty Counsel. “No right is more foundational than the right to life. Without life, all other rights are irrelevant,” concluded Staver.