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PAUL KIEL
Paul Kiel's coverage of the foreclosure crisis at ProPublica won
a 2011 Scripps Howard Award for business/economics reporting and a Best
in Business award from the Society of American Business Editors and
Writers. He’s produced stories for the Washington Post, USA Today,
Slate, and American Public Media’s Marketplace, among others.
Before joining ProPublica in 2008, Kiel wrote for TPMmuckraker, Talking
Points Memo's investigative reporting blog. TPM's coverage of the
firings of U.S. attorneys and politicization of the Department of
Justice won a George Polk Award for legal reporting.
PUBLICATIONS
The Great American Foreclosure Story: The Struggle for Justice and a Place to Call Home
By: Paul Kiel (Kindle Edition)
ProPublica’s mesmerizing and groundbreaking look at the national
housing crisis, told through the lens of one woman whose story came to
exemplify it.
Sheila Ramos’s story mirrors the lives of millions
of Americans who have lost their homes since the beginning of the
housing crisis in 2007. The Great American Foreclosure Story details
with clarity and empathy the road that led Ramos and so many like her
toward financial ruin. Once the owner of a small business and a home,
Ramos fell on hard times. Predatory lending and denied loan-modification
applications eventually sent her and her three grandchildren packing,
leaving behind their house in Florida and winding up in a tent outside
of Ramos’s faraway hometown.
Alongside Ramos’s story are
additional investigations by ProPublica reporter Paul Kiel and his
colleagues Olga Pierce and Cora Currier documenting the systematic
failures at banks, mortgage servicers, and government watchdogs that
have exacerbated the country’s most severe foreclosure crisis since the
Great Depression. Drawing from whistleblower testimonies, extensive
homeowner databases, and a trove of underlying data, The Great American
Foreclosure Story is a comprehensive and unrivaled look at the housing
crisis, and its continuing human toll.
ARTICLES
Sept. 11, 1:35 p.m.
A study by government and academic
researchers finds that approximately 800,000 homeowners missed out on
mortgage modifications because of big banks’ poor performance.
Sept. 6, 9:16 a.m.
While Democrats paint a glowing
picture of the bailout, our Bailout Tracker database tells the whole
story. A look at the biggest losses and gains stemming from the TARP and
Fannie, Freddie bailout.
July 3, 2:01 p.m.
Last month, the government released
information on the compensation victims of the banks’ foreclosure
practices might receive. For homeowners, it turns out that it’s
crucially important just how the bank messed up.
June 6, 11:55 a.m.
The government promises that harmed homeowners will get compensated —but its programs are confusing. We help navigate them.
May 22, 12:27 p.m.
We contacted every state to see how
they are spending the money they received from the foreclosure
settlement. Here’s the most comprehensive breakdown available anywhere.
May 22, 12:26 p.m.
We contacted every state to see how
they are spending the money they received from the foreclosure
settlement. Here’s the most comprehensive breakdown available anywhere.
May 22, 12:26 p.m.
Under the foreclosure settlement with
big banks, states got $2.5 billion to help homeowners. But a
comprehensive, state-by-state breakdown shows that almost a billion is
going to general use.
April 11, 8:53 a.m.
An employee at a mortgage servicer
that was owned by Goldman describes the internal chaos that harmed
thousands of homeowners and undermined the government’s flagship
foreclosure prevention program.
April 10, 3 a.m.
The story of how one woman went from a
three-bedroom home to a tent is the story of how America ended up in a
foreclosure crisis that still drags down the economy.
Feb. 10, 11:55 a.m.
Yesterday’s mortgage settlement aims
to avoid the pitfalls of the administration’s floundering foreclosure
program, but enforcement is again a question.
Sheila Ramos’s story mirrors the lives of millions
of Americans who have lost their homes since the beginning of the
housing crisis in 2007. The Great American Foreclosure Story details
with clarity and empathy the road that led Ramos and so many like her
toward financial ruin. Once the owner of a small business and a home,
Ramos fell on hard times. Predatory lending and denied loan-modification
applications eventually sent her and her three grandchildren packing,
leaving behind their house in Florida and winding up in a tent outside
of Ramos’s faraway hometown.
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