A modern version of the Home Owners' Loan Corporation could help solve the financial crisis.

A temporary housing intervention during the Great Depression offers lessons for how to deal with our current crisis.

The current U.S. housing bust has been described as the worst since the Great Depression, butthe financial and economic collapse in 1933 is virtually impossible for people today to even imagine.

Alex Pollock examines the future of the current financial crisis as it relates to the housing industry.

Economic instability has spread beyond housing, but housing is the place to fix it.

A loan substitution program may be the best way to quickly reduce the potential number of mortgage defaults.

Wherever else the status quo ante may reign, the Obama administration has brought change to the tradition of sending foreign dignitaries home with lovely parting gifts.

The Troubled Asset Relief Program should be run like a business with a goal of returning as much of the involuntary investment as possible to its owners--the taxpayers--along with a reasonable overall profit.