September 4, 2009

Housing foreclosures

Home foreclosures in Wisconsin have increased 71 percent in the past six months. Ben Merens and his guest discuss how combining unemployment insurance and housing vouchers could be a way to prevent many Americans from losing their homes. Listen here.

Guest: Morris Davis, Assistant Professor of Real Estate and Urban Land Economics, UW School of Business.
Co-author, Wisconsin Foreclosure and Unemployment Relief Plan.