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A Critique Of Congressional Proposals To Permit Modification Of Home Mortgages In Chapter 13 Bankruptcy, Mark S. Scarberry
A Critique Of Congressional Proposals To Permit Modification Of Home Mortgages In Chapter 13 Bankruptcy, Mark S. Scarberry
Pepperdine Law Review
Proposed amendments to the Bankruptcy Code permitting strip down of under secured home mortgages to the court-determined value of the homes and other modifications of home mortgages in Chapter 13 would substantially alter the risk characteristics of home mortgages, with likely substantial effects on future mortgage interest rates and future mortgage availability. Thus, the future societal cost of such a change in the law likely would be large. This article explains and supports that thesis, primarily on the ground that the proposed changes would leave mortgage holders with all of the future downside risk in the real property market while …
Confronting The Mortgage Meltdown: A Brief For The Federalization Of State Mortgage Foreclosure Law, Grant S. Nelson
Confronting The Mortgage Meltdown: A Brief For The Federalization Of State Mortgage Foreclosure Law, Grant S. Nelson
Pepperdine Law Review
This Article argues for federal preemption of state procedures governing the foreclosure of mortgages and security interests in rents. While it also suggests that federal action limiting or prohibiting state anti-deficiency legislation may be appropriate, it leaves this issue to future consideration. Thus, its major focus is to advocate the congressional adoption of both Uniform Nonjudicial Foreclosure Act (UNFA) and Uniform Assignment of Rents Act (UARA) to make them available to all lenders nationwide. However, the federal government has a special stake in greater uniformity for its own account. This is especially the case as to mortgages on real estate. …
Preventing A Return Engagement: Eliminating The Mortgage Purchasers' Status As A Holder-In-Due-Course: Properly Aligning Incentives Among The Parties, Alex M. Johnson Jr.
Preventing A Return Engagement: Eliminating The Mortgage Purchasers' Status As A Holder-In-Due-Course: Properly Aligning Incentives Among The Parties, Alex M. Johnson Jr.
Pepperdine Law Review
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The Value(S) Of Foreclosure Law Reform, Melissa B. Jacoby
The Value(S) Of Foreclosure Law Reform, Melissa B. Jacoby
Pepperdine Law Review
This symposium contribution examines the starkly different values reflected in traditional legal literature on foreclosure law reform in the U.S. as compared to some more recent entries in the wake of the rise of subprime lending and high rates of residential mortgage default. I highlight economist Dean Baker’s “right to rent” proposal, which would give former homeowners leasehold rights at market rates, to illustrate a more progressive set of housing policy considerations and to challenge the assumption that ownership is essential or optimal to promoting various housing objectives.
Bringing Manufactured Housing Into The Real Estate Finance System, Ann M. Burkhart
Bringing Manufactured Housing Into The Real Estate Finance System, Ann M. Burkhart
Pepperdine Law Review
Eight percent of the United States population - more than 23 million people - live in manufactured homes (also called mobile homes). In some years, more than 30% of the new homes sold have been manufactured. Moreover, manufactured housing is the most important form of unsubsidized affordable housing in this country. Up to two-thirds of the new affordable homes built each year have been manufactured. However, the manufactured housing industry currently is struggling to survive a meltdown in its sales and finance markets. A tremendous obstacle to the industry’s recovery is that most manufactured homes are characterized as personal property, …