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Q: How do homeowners fit into the bailout? A: They don’t

By Molly Priesmeyer | 09.29.08 | 12:17 pm

Now that the bailout package has been hatched out, it looks like Bush and Congress have once again left struggling homeowners in the lurch, this time sending relief to those who helped put every homeowner in crisis in the first place. One critic says the plan is so troubling that it’s as if Congress has told homeowners to “drop dead.”

How’s the neighborhood? Minneapolis foreclosures on pace to surpass last year’s record

By Molly Priesmeyer | 04.21.08 | 10:46 am

Now that the ice has thawed and Minneapolis residents are shaking off that long hibernation, the cusp of spring is revealing new colors: red foreclosure signs on front doors; orange letters of condemnation; gray, city-placed…

Foreclosure bill author: Time for governor, Legislature to hear ‘wake-up call’ in housing crisis

By Molly Priesmeyer | 04.08.08 | 2:17 pm

It seems that every week brings new proposals aimed at stemming the tide of foreclosed and abandoned homes. But aside from new anti-predatory lending laws, most of the solutions for strapped homeowners have been met with stiff opposition.…