The Obama administration is looking into creating a plan where mortgage borrowers who have fallen behind on their payments may now have the United States government make the payments for them, and then pay the government rent in the process.

As home values fall, home equity credit lines -- a favorite cash source for entrepreneurs -- are vanishing.

He just predicted its demise. Now he's seeing some tentative signs of hope.

A 44 page tome chocked full of data has been released by Harvard University’s Joint Center for Housing Studies. In their annual State of the Nation’s Housing report, Harvard’s JCHS doesn’t reveal anything earth-shattering. Crunching through the data from 2008 shows that the housing market . . . pretty much stinks.

The brief moment of hope that housing had hit a bottom and that both the rate of home sales and prices would improve is slipping away. The pressures that will push prices down, by another 20% in some markets, are rising interest rates and an unemployment rate that will almost certainly go over 10% and stay there for several quarters.