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Feds fine four mortgage insurers $15 million for alleged kickbacks
WASHINGTON -- Federal regulators hit four national private mortgage insurance companies Thursday with a combined $15.4 million in fines to settle allegations of making improper kickbacks to lenders to steer consumer business to them. The fines, which...
Tags: Bribery, Genworth Financial Inc, Richard Cordray, Fines, Insurance
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Meeting set on use of $500,000 grant by Martinsburg, Eastern Panhandle Housing Consortium
A public hearing will be held April 11 about the proposed use of more than $500,000 in federal funding by the city of Martinsburg and Eastern Panhandle Housing Consortium. The hearing will be at 6:30 p.m. in the J. Oakley Seibert Council Chambers on the...Tags: Rentals, Economy, Business and Finance, Finance
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Corporation For Independent Living Chips Away At Dismal Hartford Homeownership Rate
Hartford's homeownership rate is among the lowest for U.S. cities, but one project in the Sheldon-Charter Oak neighborhood is chipping away at that dismal standing. The Corporation for Independent Living, a nonprofit organziation that develops housing... -
Greuel recalls working for Clinton on Northridge quake relief
Looking to turn the page from a series of staff shakeups, Los Angeles mayoral candidate Wendy Greuel touted her endorsement by former President Clinton in the San Fernando Valley on Monday — turning a spotlight on her role in the recovery efforts...
Tags: Richard Riordan, Mark Ridley-Thomas, Local Elections, Elections, Gloria Molina
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Editorial: Sequester Hitting Poor Where They Live
If you were entertaining the notion that the so-called sequester is really a good idea, it isn't. It may end up putting hundreds of poor Connecticut families out on the street. That is just one of many adverse effects beginning to take shape as a result...
Tags: Rental Service, Chicago Housing Authority, Public Housing, Rentals, Section 8 (housing)
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Talk Back: Does Bill Clinton's endorsement of Greuel sway your vote?
President Bill Clinton has endorsed Wendy Greuel for mayor, saying in a letter that her time as city controller proves she can handle Los Angeles’ problems. “In her many years of public service in Los Angeles … Wendy has personified...
Tags: Gavin Newsom, Bill Clinton, Elections, Wendy Greuel, Politics
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Greuel makes play for African American voters in L.A. mayor's race
L.A. NOWLos Angeles mayoral candidate Wendy Greuel made a play for African American voters Saturday, rolling out a list of endorsements from black leaders and invoking the memory of Mayor Tom Bradley at the opening of her campaign office on Crenshaw Boulevard.... -
El Centro sets draft CDBG allocation
Staff WriterA draft one-year plan to allocate thousands of dollars in federal funding for various supportive services to residents was approved Tuesday by the El Centro City Council. The draft plan describing how Community Development Block Grant funding is...Tags: Social Services, Christianity, Roman Catholicism, Abusive Behavior, Social Issues
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Police briefs - March 15
Man wanted for kidnapping found in Berkeley County MARTINSBURG, W.Va. — A Battle Creek, Mich., man who was wanted in Michigan for kidnapping was found Thursday at a home on Raider Lane off W.Va. 9 north of Martinsburg, according to the Berkeley...Tags: Prescription Drugs, Kidnapping, Theft, U.S. Department of Justice
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Woodstock Institute finds gender bias in joint home loan, refinancing approvals
Co-borrowers may want to rethink whose name goes first on a mortgage application. Early findings from a study under way at the Woodstock Institute found that in the six-county Chicago area, joint applications for home purchases and refinancings were much...
Tags: Housing and Urban Planning, Government, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Chicago Tribune, National Government
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US citing security to censor more public records
WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. government, led by the Pentagon and CIA, censored in the name of national security files that the public requested last year under the Freedom of Information Act more often than at any time since President Barack Obama...
Tags: U.S. Department of the Interior, Washington, DC, Barack Obama, Health, National Security Agency
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Key homeless veterans program spared from cuts
Finally, a small piece of good news on the federal budget front. A key program for homeless veterans in Hampton Roads that was a candidate for spending cuts has been spared. The program, funded through the Department of Housing and Urban Development,...
Tags: Housing and Urban Planning, U.S. Congress, Budget Control Act of 2011, Hampton Roads, Section 8 (housing)
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