Rep. Laura Richardson has an unusual perspective on the housing foreclosure bills moving throughCongress: One of her own homes was threatened with repossession after she failed to pay themortgage.

What if people who lost their homes to foreclosure could rent them back from the lenders that repossessed them? That idea, which has lingered on the outskirts of the housing-crisis debate, got a boost ...

"I am waiting for the bailiff to knock on the door, take my keys and kick me out," says Jose Da Costa Diogo, one of thousands ...

The taint of “foreclosure” sticks with homes whose owners failed to make their mortgage payments. But while that might make such houses an odious deal to some home buyers, it has proven to be a ...