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As many as 227 million Americans may be compelled to disclose intimate details of their families and financial lives -- including their Social Security numbers -- in a new national database being assembled by two federal agencies. The Federal Housing Finance Agency and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau posted an April 16 Federal Register notice of an expansion of their joint National Mortgage Database Program to include personally identifiable information that reveals actual users, a reversal of previously stated policy. Sign Up for the Watchdog newsletter! FHFA will manage the database and share it with CFPB. A CFPB internal planning...

The CoreLogic National Foreclosure Report is out for October 2013. The good news! Foreclosure inventory in the U.S. fell 30.6% YoY in October. sersleinf120913 Florida leads the U.S. in foreclosure inventory as a percentage of mortgaged homes at 7.1%, followed by New Jersey at 6.7% and New York at 4.9%. clforecinvstate The lowest state in terms of foreclosure inventory? Wyoming at 0.4% followed by Alaska and Nebraska at 0.6%. If we compare judicial and non-judicial foreclosure states, we see a glaring difference. The worst states for percent of homes in foreclosure at judicial states (FLA, NJ, NY). The best states...