In this briefing, Research and Project Associate Sarah Duda discusses foreclosure trends in the first half of 2011. Policy and Communications Associate Katie Buitrago discusses policy recommendations related to longer foreclosure process times.

Tom Feltner and Spencer Cowan of Woodstock Institute are joined by Lucy Mullany of the Illinois Asset Building Group to discuss the housing and wealth creation implications of concentrated negative equity in the Chicago region communities of color.

Tom Feltner and Spencer Cowan are joined by Liza Caton of the Northwest Side Housing Center to discuss the growing percentage of conventional and FHA foreclosures, and foreclosures among longer-tenured homeowners in the Chicago region.