Full Response to an Empty House: Public Safety Strategies for Addressing Mortgage Fraud and the Foreclosure Crisis. Best Practices

摘要

Recognizing that recent economic trends have fueled mortgage fraud, foreclosures, and neighborhood instability, the Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) in january 2009 brought together experts from around the country to examine solutions. On the first day, representatives from the following jurisdictions shared their experiences developing comprehensive, collaborative responses: Indio, California, a fast-growing suburb that underwent rapid population growth followed by a just-as-rapid collapse in its housing market: Dallas, Texas, which experienced both high rates of real estate speculation and sub-prime lending: and the urban center of Indianapolis, Indiana, and Baltimore, Maryland, which have dealth with housing blight for decades. On the secdond day, experts from Miami-Dade County in Florida, Wayne County in Michigan, and Fulton county in Georgia focused on how to identify and respond to mortgage fraud.