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1:   (PUBLIC HOUSING) Tension Rises Among Housing Advocates : A proposal by the Obama administration to change the way public rental assistance is applied has generated tension between advocates for public housing authorities (PHAs) and the affordable 06/25/2010 12:50 PM

2:   (MORTGAGE BROKERS) Mortgage Brokers Circle Wagons : A battered mortgage broker industry is taking steps to protect itself from an increasingly negative perception and a growing effort to strictly regulate it. The Nat'l Assn. of Mortgage Brokers creates a 12/18/2009 12:53 PM

3:   (LAWSUIT) ACORN Sues For More Money : Watching its financial resources evaporate on the heels of federal and state investigations into its activities and finances, the Assn. of Community Organizations for Reform Now sues to recover 11/13/2009 12:27 PM

4:   Trade Lobbies Push Domestic Spending : Congress departed the Capitol for the Passover/Easter recess without coming to terms over a FY 2010 spending ceiling, leaving two weeks for housing trade lobbyists to prod lawmakers to restore 04/10/2009 12:29 PM

5:   ACORN Fears On The Rise : Hovering in the background of American Recovery & Reinvestment Act proposals is the fear on the right of the political spectrum that the Assn. of Community Organizations for Reform Now will attempt to 02/13/2009 12:38 PM

6:   Protests Disrupt Mortgage Banker Meet : Members of the Mortgage Bankers Assn. gathered in San Francisco for their annual conference this week and events unfolded that likely made attendees wish for the good old days when the bankers were 10/24/2008 12:47 PM

7:   FM Policy Focus Disbands : ter nearly 10 years of trying to rein in Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, lobby group FM Policy Focus calls it a day July 30, just hours after President Bush signs the massive housing rescue bill, HR 3221. FM Policy Focus, which began as FM Watch, declared its mission 08/08/2008 12:40 PM

8:   Housing Lobbies Blitz Capitol Hill : Washington lobbyists are pulling out all stops in an effort to persuade Congress to adopt a housing market stimulus. 05/16/2008 12:35 PM

9:   Lobbies Push Bankruptcy Code Change : Despite wariness in the House during an election year and a bitter defeat in the Senate, unions and liberal lobbies link in a coalition to press the House to revisit proposed changes to the bankruptcy code to favor homeowners facing foreclosure. The law was changed in a 04/25/2008 12:16 PM

10:   ACORN Crashes MBA Parley : About 150 protesters from Assn. of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) invade a Mortgage Bankers Assn. (MBA) 03/21/2008 12:30 PM

11:   Housing Forum Doubles As Lobby : A day-long housing forum designed as a prelude to the unveiling of a Bush administration subprime bailout plan doubles as an effort to move Congress off dead-enter on Federal Housing Admin. (FHA) and government-sponsored enterprise (GSE) reform. 12/07/2007 3:58 PM

12:   ACB, ABA Merger Complete : American Bankers Assn. completes its merger with America's Community Bankers 12/07/2007 3:53 PM

 

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