Chart shows seriously delinquent loans by loan category in Texas, 2001-2007. ; Seven Texas metropolitan statistical areas ranked in the Top 100 MSAs with the highest foreclosure rate relative to the total number of households in the MSA. ; Twenty-two Texas ZIP codes made the list of 500 U.S. ZIP...

Texas has a rather quick foreclosure process for non-home equity loans. (Home equity loans must be foreclosed judicially.) The process is conducted by the trustee designated by the lender in the deed of trust (the mortgage instrument) without any court involvement.

This issue of Banking and Community Perspectives analyzes the dynamics of concentrated poverty in rural and urban settings.

Homeownership doesn't just provide people a place to live. It also enables them to accumulate wealth by saving more and building equity in their homes.

Building and maintaining financial security is increasingly difficult for a growing portion of American households. Wealth is less prevalent in middle-class households and increasing among the already well-to-do. At the same time, poverty is growing and concentrating disproportionately among the...

Leigh Tivol, senior program manager with the Corporation for Enterprise Development (CFED) in Washington, D.C., presented the national perspective on the asset-building movement at the RAISE Texas Action Summit in April.>