It was vacant and vandalized, marked with an X for demolition. The tipping point occurred when a young girl was sexually assaulted in the gangway. "It was a symbol of really what was problematic with these properties across this...
“We applaud the Department of Defense and the Obama Administration for taking action to protect the financial well-being of our servicemembers as well as our national security,” said Dory Rand, president of Woodstock Institute. Previously, the Military Lending Act...
From January to June of this year, the Chicago area saw the lowest level of new foreclosure filings since 2007, according to recent data released by the Woodstock Institute, a research and policy organization that specializes in fair lending,...
140922_complaint_narratives_final.pdfThis letter supports a proposal from the CFPB to publish consumer complaint narratives as part of its public consumer complaint database. The letter urges the CFPB to strengthen the proposal by providing more information to users when asking for...
That’s what a 45-year-old West Side woman found this past winter – and she’s been struggling ever since to get answers. The mother of three said she had no idea what to do when she learned the place she...
Those are just a few reasons why a recent report by the Woodstock Institute showing that new foreclosure filings in Maywood and other western suburbs are down significantly from this point last year may be such welcome news for...
For example, if a bank allows unauthorized charges to hit a borrower’s bank account, or a mortgage lender repeatedly loses loan modification paperwork, or a payday lender fails to disclose how much a loan would cost, the consumer can...
Here to help answer those questions and more are Steven Esposito, senior vice president at Morgan Stanley, Courtney Eccles, policy director at the Woodstock Institute, Linda Waite, director of the Center on Aging at the National Opinion Research Center...
The dramatic dip in foreclosure filings comes after "months of sustained year-over-year declines," the Woodstock Institute said in an announcement last week of the new data. In the city of Chicago, a total of 3,950 properties began the foreclosure...
The data from The Woodstock Institute, a suburban financial nonprofit research and policy organization, shows foreclosure filings — the first step in the foreclosure process — went down 37.7 percent year over year in the six-county Chicago region. Final...