Studies & Research: a Library of Findings & Reports

Expand your knowledge through a series of findings within the reports from leading research institutions and sources. Foreclosure trends and impacts, walk-aways, vacancy patterns, legislative efforts, and strategies for stabilization are just a few of the topics investigated, analyzed, and documented for your reference.

Reference Desk

Library or Selected Articles

• Industry Focus: Boots on the Ground Collaboration(January 2011)
• Safeguard Properties Teams with Brandon Kirkham to Launch Compliance Connections (January 2011)
• Foreclosure Fast-Tracking: A Field Servicer's Perspective (April 2010)
• The MERS Alternative to Vacant-Property Registration Ordinances (September 2009)
• REO Properties a Sticking Point for Servicers, Municipalities (May 2009)
• How Creative Disposition Can Aid Communities (May 2009)
• An Outbreak of Ordinances (August 2008)
• Effective Communication-Code Enforcement and the Servicing Industry (March 2008)

Studies/Research

• GAO: Mortgage Foreclosures: Additional Mortgage Servicer Actions Could Help Reduce the Frequency and Impact of Abandoned Foreclosures (November 2010)
• Responding to Housing Foreclosures and Vacancies: A Handbook for Small Cities in Kentucky
  By The City Solutions Center, a partnership between the Kentucky League of Cities, the NewCities Institute, and the University of Louisville. (July 2010)
• Resilience in the Face of Foreclosures: Lessons from Local and Regional Practice
  By Professor Todd Swanstrom Des Lee Professor of Community Collaboration and Public Policy Administration at the University of Missouri - St. Louis and James Brooks, program director for housing and community development in the Center for Research and Innovation at the National League of Cities (January 2011)
• Code Enforcement and Community Stabilization: The Forgotten First Responders to Vacant and Foreclosed Homes
  By Joseph Schilling is the Director of Research and Policy for the National Vacant Properties Campaign and Professor in Practice of Urban Affairs and Planning at Virginia Tech in Alexandria, Virginia (2009)