SP Group has designed a best practices checklist for developing and evaluating funding dashboards for the Community Development Block Grant Disaster Recovery (CDBG-DR) Program. On June 7, 2018, The House Committee on Financial Services approved the Reforming Disaster Recovery Act of 2018 (H.R. 4557), to permanently authorize the CDBG-DR Program. The bill included provisions designed to increase the efficiency,...more
SP Group is very proud to announce that, for the second year, we were a sponsor of the Association of Public Data Users (APDU) 2018 Annual Conference! We also organized and moderated the panel “Making Connections: Linking Data to Solve Public Problems“. Our panel was about how private and administrative data can supplement or enhance nationally collected public data. How are...more
There are 16 wildfires burning in California. One of the largest fires is the Carr Fire near Redding. The Carr Fire has been burning for more than three weeks and as of mid-August, it has not been fully contained. It has destroyed more than 1,000 homes and over 200,000 acres, making it one of the largest wildfires in California’s history. To...more
In October 2017, California’s most destructive wildfire, the Tubbs Fire, swept through Santa Rosa in Sonoma County. It destroyed nearly 5,000 homes and had a significant impact on the area’s housing market. In August 2018, less than a year after the Tubbs Fire, the Carr Fire has destroyed over 1,000 homes just a couple hundred miles north of Santa...more
Non-profits, while perhaps most suited to work with borrowers of seriously delinquent mortgages, face many challenges to independently purchase and resolve distressed mortgages. However, with strategic and financial partnerships, non-profits can overcome hurdles to participation in note sales. A popular and effective means of resolving large numbers of defaulted single family home loans has...more
Author’s Note: In the spirit of Halloween, here is a sneak peek at areas that offer more treats than tricks for investors! SP Group Identifies 4,883…...more