Mortgage finance company Freddie Mac said it will allow some borrowers to rent their homes after losing them to foreclosure. ...more

January 31, 2009

As some head home for the holidays, families facing a financial crisis and foreclosure are hoping they will have a home - their home - for the holiday season. ...more

November 27, 2008

Gov. Charlie Crist said Monday that he likes the idea of a moratorium on home foreclosures in Florida. ...more

November 24, 2008

Ernie Harpster fell behind on his mortgage payments last year, so he tried to persuade his bank to give him time to sell his home and pay off what he could. ...more

October 5, 2008

As if dealing with a delinquent tenant wasn't bad enough. Starting today, Florida landlords will have to pay more to file eviction notices - nearly 240 percent more. ...more

July 1, 2008

In a decade handling evictions for the Miami-Dade County Police Department, Albert Fernandez has run across a middle-class father bankrupted by his daughter's cancer treatment, an old woman scammed by a gambling husband, and countless families perpetually on the edge of poverty. ...more

June 8, 2008

In Southern California, where the Roman Catholic Church has agreed to pay victims of pedophile priests $660 million, the archdiocese is ordering nuns out of convents so the buildings can be sold to fund the out-of-court settlement. ...more

October 6, 2007