Studies & Research: a Library of Findings
and 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 that are investigated, analyzed, and documented for your reference.

Reference Desk

Impacts of Foreclosure

• Industry Focus: Boots on the Ground Collaboration (January 2011)

• 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)

Innovative Partnerships and Programs

• Effective Communication-Code Enforcement and the Servicing Industry (March 2008)
• Safeguard Properties Teams with Brandon Kirkham to Launch Compliance Connections (January 2011)

Vacant Property Registration and Legislative Issues

• Foreclosure Fast-Tracking: A Field Servicer's Perspective (April 2010)
• An Outbreak of Ordinances (August 2008)
• The MERS Alternative to Vacant-Property Registration Ordinances (September 2009)

After the Foreclosure – Real Estate Owned, Redevelopment

• REO Properties a Sticking Point for Servicers, Municipalities (May 2009)
• How Creative Disposition Can Aid Communities (May 2009)
• 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)
• REO & Vacant Properties: Strategies for Neighborhood Stabilization
  By the Federal Reserve Banks of Boston and Cleveland; (September 2010)
• Building Sustainable Ownership: Rethinking Public Policy toward Lower Income Homeownership
  By Alan Mallach (January 2011)

The Mayors Speak: United States Conference of Mayors

• US Conference of Mayors 2009 Vacant and Abandoned Properties Survey and Best Practices
• US Conference of Mayors 2008 Vacant and Abandoned Properties Survey and Best Practices
• US Conference of Mayors 2006 Combating Problems of Vacant and Abandoned Properties