NCST is pleased to share publications, comment letters and letters in which one of our team members served as an author or as a signee. This is another way we serve as a voice for vacant properties and the mission-focused developers working to return these properties to productive use.

NCST Publication:

• NCST – Fast Track Foreclosure Laws: Not a Silver Bullet for Fighting Blight
  • Overview: Despite an overall housing recovery, many communities are still held back by high numbers of vacant and abandoned homes. Increasingly, states are experimenting with expedited foreclosure processes for these properties to prevent blight – but are those laws producing results. This report finds that the expedited foreclosure laws in four states – Illinois, New Jersey, New York, and Ohio – appear to have produced minimal results. Rather, these legislative efforts are more useful as policy vehicles for other changes to foreclosure laws.
  • Date: 08/15/2018

NCST Public Comments:

• FHFA Strategic Plan 2018-2020
  • NCST Comment
  • Date: 10/27/2017

• FHFA Affordable Housing Goals 2018-2020
  • Coalition comment letter
  • Sign on organizations: Prosperity Now (formerly CFED) and National Consumer Law Center
  • Date: 09/05/2017

• HUD Regulatory Reform
  • NCST Comment
  • Date: 07/31/2017

• FHFA Duty to Serve – GSE Proposed Underserved Markets Plans
  • NCST Comment
  • Sign on organization: Center for Community Progress
  • Date: 07/10/2017

• FHFA Duty to Serve Rule
  • Coalition Comment
  • Sign on organizations: Prosperity Now (formerly CFED), Center for Community Progress, and Housing Partnership Network
  • Date: 03/17/2016