BUILDER Online's Housing Headlines

The unpaid bills range from the ordinary property taxes to those collected from special taxing districts, also known as Mello Roos districts, used to create infrastructure in new-growth areas.

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac sound like a homely mid-Western couple - dependable, perhaps slightly dull.

But these two almost destroyed the US housing market and their downfall was the overture to the global financial crisis.

It is a reprise of the Home Run Program, backed by former Gov. Jon Huntsman Jr., that advocates say helped spur the sale of 1,625 new homes worth nearly $377 million.

Utah Gov. Gary Herbert said Friday he’ll use $8 million in federal stimulus funds to help kick start the state’s sluggish housing market.

He plucks out one motion and leafs through: a Deutsche Bank representative signed an affidavit claiming to be the vice president of two different banks. His office was in Kansas City, Mo., but the signature was notarized in Texas. And the bank did not even own the mortgage when it began to foreclose on the homeowner.

The judge’s lips pucker as if he had inhaled a pickle; he rejected this one.

“I’m a little guy in Brooklyn who doesn’t belong to their country clubs, what can I tell you?” he says, adding a shrug for punctuation. “I won’t accept their comedy of errors.”

The Rancho Cucamonga center, in what is one of regions worst hit by foreclosures in the nation, has been the busiest site for Chase. “The center does double the loan modification submissions than any other in the country,” said Rod Tawasha, home preservation manager.