Live at the Forum Webinar: Resilience in the Face of Foreclosures

Wednesday, November 30, 2011 at 2:00pm EST

Join this webinar to hear the findings of two National League of Cities reports on Resilience in the Face of Foreclosures, highlighting Lessons from Local and Regional Practice and Six Case Studies. Speakers will discuss how leadership, outreach efforts, partnerships, and leveraging financial resources play a role in addressing foreclosures and helping communities to become more resilient. The webinar will feature the authors of the report, James Brooks, Mark Weinheimer and Roger Williams, and feature speakers from the City of Phoenix and the City of Milwaukee to detail the approaches their cities have taken to successfully respond to the continuing waves of home mortgage foreclosures, vacant properties and destabilized neighborhoods.

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Permalink Reply by Center for Housing Policy staff on November 30, 2011 at 2:23pm

Here is a copy of the powerpoint from Roger Williams' presentation. We apologize for the technical glitch that prevented them from showing up.

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NLC Webinar powerpoint.pptx, 76 KB

Permalink Reply by Center for Housing Policy staff on November 30, 2011 at 2:50pm

Attached are two other slides from today's presentation.

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national league of cities powerpoint slides.pptx, 446 KB
Resilience in the Face of Foreclosures.pptx, 73 KB

Permalink Reply by Jennie Nevin on November 30, 2011 at 3:08pm

Is there any traction in the idea of hyper-targeted foreclosure prevention strategies? e.g. mobilizing groups of non-profits, counseling services, etc. to reach out to families based on address-level data on homes going through foreclosure. Another example: collecting enough data on foreclosures to run predictive models on where/when certain areas might be at heightened risk of foreclosure and then targeting help that way?

Permalink Reply by Center for Housing Policy staff on December 1, 2011 at 8:08am

Have local ordinances on code violations on REO properties played a role in controlling vacancy levels?

- Caleb Stewart

Permalink Reply by Center for Housing Policy staff on December 1, 2011 at 8:09am

It would be helpful to know where the data is comming from? How do they know the number of properties with building code violations? where is that information pulled from?

What money did they use to staff these efforts? What funding did they bring to the table to hellp them cover the costs of the counseling and the helping people stay in their homes?

- Michelle Starratt

Permalink Reply by Jennie Nevin on December 1, 2011 at 8:10am

Michelle, is that to me or to Caleb?

Permalink Reply by Center for Housing Policy staff on December 1, 2011 at 8:27am

Jennie, Center Staff posted these additional questions from the webinar yesterday.