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17.01.26 - 01:24
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US Foreclosures Up 14% In 2025; Florida Tops States (ZeroHedge)
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US Foreclosures Up 14% In 2025; Florida Tops States
Authored by Mary Prenon via The Epoch Times,
Home foreclosures across America were on the rise in 2025, increasing by 14 percent from 2024, with Florida experiencing the highest numbers in the nation.
In its Jan. 15 report, property data and analytics provider ATTOM, said that 367,460 U.S. properties were involved with default notices, scheduled auctions, or bank repossessions last year.
Those properties represented 0.26 percent of all housing units, a slight uptick from 0.23 percent in 2024, but down from 0.36 percent in 2019.
While the amount of the annual foreclosures were also down by 25 percent from 2019, the fourth quarter alone saw a total of 111,692 properties with foreclosure filings—up by 10 percent from the previous quarter and 32 percent from the fourth quarter of 2024.
Nationwide, one in 1,274 properties was involved in a foreclosure filing in the fourth quarter of 2025.
Florida led in foreclosure filings last year (1 in 230...
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17.01.26 - 01:24
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Biden-Appointed Federal Judge Blocks Trump Admin′s Move To Withhold Minnesota Food Stamp Funds (ZeroHedge)
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Biden-Appointed Federal Judge Blocks Trump Admin's Move To Withhold Minnesota Food Stamp Funds
A federal judge on Jan. 14 stopped the Trump administration from withholding $80 million in administrative costs for Minnesota's Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), ruling that the U.S. Department of Agriculture's tight deadline for reviewing the eligibility of 100,000 households was likely illegal.
U.S. District Judge Laura Provinzino, appointed by President Biden in 2024, said during a hearing in Saint Paul that the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) failed to justify why Minnesota needed to complete the review of recipient eligibility by Jan. 15, or face losing half its administrative costs. She noted the agency ignored laws limiting such reviews to once per year.
“USDA is asking the state to violate federal law, regulations, and the state's own operational plan,” which had previously been approved by the agency, said Provinzino.
As Kimberley Hayek explains below via The E...
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