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For example, though blacks are 13 percent of the national population, they are less than one percent of Montana’s population. They can move there if they wish. But “to ‘level the playing field,’ should we bus blacks into...
Miami Gardens officials acknowledge that they don't know what percentage of their at-risk homeowners have gotten loan modifications. (Williams' ordinance would also require the banks to provide that data.) But the spike in foreclosure signs tells them it's too few. And given the city's grinding 15...
For that reason, Williams believes those lenders need to step up and do more to help struggling local homeowners revise their loans and hang on to their houses - and he wants to give his frustrations some legal teeth. Williams has proposed a city ordinance that could penalize banks that fail...
Despite his grass-roots support, it's uncertain if Williams can muster a council majority next month to pass the ordinance, which would likely be the first such law to emerge amid the Great Recession. (A Pennsylvania judge last year mandated a program in Philadelphia that requires lenders there to...
But Williams, who is running for U.S. Congress next year, says the banks still need a push. In an editorial last week, the Miami Herald also broached the subject, saying that if lenders "do not step up their efforts to help stressed-out homeowners," then Congress should consider a "change...