The huge penalty for duping investors on subprime loans won’t do much for the homeowners the bank bilked. But at least there’s a measure of justice.

This time, the runaway housing market is being fueled by Wall Street’s gobbling up properties. But the results will be just as bad for regular people as it was four years ago.

Protests outside the Justice Department are demanding prosecutions of banks responsible for the foreclosure crisis.

Last week, Bloomberg Businessweek ran a magazine cover featuring caricatures of Black and Latino people swimming in money, feeding it to their dogs, and burning it for warmth. Colorlines’ readers react.

An AARP poll shows 16 percent of borrowers over 50 are underwater, and that black and Latino homeowners are the hardest hit.

The bank has been a standout bad actor, both during the subprime lending boom and during the recession that it created.

Brother Ali hasn’t always seen his work as political commentary. But ahead of his third studio album and a new political consciousness, all of that has changed when he got arrested while occupying a foreclosed home.

Carmen Pittman, 22, is fighting to save the home that’s been in her family for generations.

Wells Fargo and U.S. Bank have let foreclosed homes in black and Latino neighborhoods lapse into disrepair, according to housing advocates.

A 37-year-old mother of a 19-month-old girl, was arrested by LAPD officers for trespassing during a foreclosure protest at the home she used to live in.

The San Francisco County assessor released an audit suggesting that many more demonstrable crimes were committed during the foreclosure bust than we once thought. That’s not a quirk. It’s rampant lawlessness. And it’s by design.

President Obama said he’s eager to debate equal opportunity in last night’s State of the Union. But he also offered a huge policy change he’s avoided for four years: investigate the banks’ housing boom crimes.

Discriminatory housing practices are one reason why our country needs a strong Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

Several banks came to the negotiating table with home occupiers in West Oakland, Seattle and San Jose, according to protesters.

Sixty people gathered in San Francsico’s Bayview district to help Carolyn Gage moved back into her family’s home.

Occupy Oakland organizers hope to make history again by shutting down the city: the last general strike in the U.S. was in Oakland in 1946.

Employees for the New York-based law firm Steven J. Baum think it’s funny when families lose their homes.

On Tuesday, 300 members of the Colorado Progressive Coalition divested from the state’s largest bank.

Protesters vow to “foreclose the banks.”