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Using the Colorado River for Suburban Sprawl in Arizona

by The Investigative Newswire on August 9, 2011 · comment

VIDEO: LOST IN SPRAWL Threatened by suburban development, a fourth-generation farmer documents his family’s doomed legacy with time-lapse video. By Thomas Gorman for The Ration When artist Matt Moore returned to his family farm outside Phoenix, signs of [...]

Reporter Joaquin Sapien is Interviewed by PBS for Chinese Tainted Drywall Series

by The Investigative Newswire on April 26, 2011 · comment

“The CPSC or the lawyers involved, the experts that they’ve hired as part of this massive litigation, still have not figured out what exactly is in the drywall that’s causing it to offgas, which is a big problem because that means we don’t necessarily know that we can prevent this from happening again in the future.”

Home Recycled: Dan Phillips Affordable Housing

by The Investigative Newswire on January 31, 2011 · comment

Dan Phillips, a self taught architect, is redefining the architectural landscape of Texas. Throughout the years he's collected someone else's junk and turned it into doors, furniture, countertops, floors, etc. From broken glass to broken toilets, Dan is re-shaping the perspective of a home.

Consuming Foreclosed Properties With False Legal Fees & Anonymity: Private Debt Collection

by The Investigative Newswire on November 3, 2010 · 1 Comment

The New Tax Man: Big Banks and Hedge Funds Lacking Oversight, Wall Street Titans Charge Property Owners Steep Fees – and Can Seize Homes By Fred Schulte and Ben Protess Huffington Post Investigative Fund Interactive StoryPowered by StoryRiver [...]

Government Loan Modification Program Update

by The Investigative Newswire on September 27, 2010 · comment

Mod Program Falling Short of Govt’s Vague Goals by Paul Kiel ProPublica, Sep. 23, 11:11 a.m. The number of homeowners dropped from the government’s mortgage modification program continued to mount last month, according to new numbers released yesterday. [...]

Special Alert: Water Bills Force Homeowners Into Foreclosure

by The Investigative Newswire on May 24, 2010 · comment

THE TAX LIEN FORECLOSURE: How Small Debts Snowball

HOUSING: Help Investigate "Signs of Deception"

by The Investigative Newswire on March 1, 2010 · comment

By Ben Protess, Amanda Zamora and Lagan Sebert Huffington Post Investigative Fund 9:36 pm | 18 Feb 2010 Drive through most any city in America and the offers will leap out at you: ”Repair Your Credit!” ”Modify Your [...]

HOUSING: New "Rescue" Scheme

by The Investigative Newswire on March 1, 2010 · comment

Consumer Complaints Soar on Mortgage ‘Rescue’ Schemes By Ben Protess and Lagan Sebert Huffington Post Investigative Fund 11:42 am | 24 Feb 2010 As many Americans sank deeper into financial trouble last year, a record number reported that [...]

2010 Update on Mortgage Reform Under the Obama Plan

by The Investigative Newswire on January 4, 2010 · 2 Comments

Mortgage foreclosures still swamping federal efforts to help By Chris Adams | McClatchy Newspapers & Disseminated by The Erie Wire From The Erie Wire: Be sure to watch the video from McClatchy on Goldman Sachs offshore havens that [...]

Deconstructing Dinner: Permaculture

by The Investigative Newswire on August 10, 2009 · comment

July 30, 2009 “PERMACULTURE AT THE BLUE RAVEN FARM” download/open (stereo) | stream (stereo) Deconstructing Dinner revisits with the topic of permaculture… a concept and philosophy that has grown significantly in popularity since we first aired a show [...]