Foreclosure Prevention

Bailout Money Fails To Reach Neediest Homeowners: Report

HuffingtonPost.com | Loren Berlin | Posted 04.12.2012

Read More: Foreclosures, Treasury Department, Sigtarp, Foreclosure, Foreclosure Prevention, Housing Assistance, Hardest Hit Fund, Tarp, Housing Crisis, Business News

A federal housing program funded with taxpayer money left over from the government's bailout of the banks and auto companies is failing to deliver on ...

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Meltdown

HuffingtonPost.com | Peter S. Goodman | Posted 12.07.2011

Read More: Poverty, Eviction, Real Estate Florida, Foreclosure, Florida, Foreclosure Prevention, Real Estate, Suburban Poverty, Foreclosure Florida, Housing Crisis, Housing Crisis Florida, Business News

CAPE CORAL, Fla. -- They sent her off with a lavish retirement party -- dinner and drinks at a local yacht club, overlooking the inky waters of the Ca...

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White House Foreclosure Prevention Program Had Minimal Oversight: Report

Posted 12.04.2011

Read More: Treasury Department, Video, Foreclosure Crisis, Loan Modifications, Mortgage Servicer, Homeowners, Foreclosure Prevention, Propublica, Gmac, Housing Crisis, Foreclosure Abuse, Business News

By Paul Kiel, ProPublicaWhy has the administration’s flagship foreclosure prevention program been so ineffective in helping struggling homeowners ge...

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Glimmer Of Hope In Bleak National Foreclosure Crisis

HuffingtonPost.com | William Alden | Posted 08.14.2011

Read More: Foreclosure, Foreclosure Crisis, Philadelphia, Foreclosure Prevention, Recession, Home Sales, Business News

With the nation in the grips of a punishing foreclosure crisis, one local program has found success in allowing struggling borrowers to stay in their ...

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More Homeowners Fall Out Of Obama's Foreclosure-Relief Program

AP | DANIEL WAGNER | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Foreclosures, Treasury Department, Hamp, Foreclosure Crisis, Loan Modification, Mortgage Modification, Home Affordable Modification Program, Obama Administration, Foreclosure Prevention, Business News

WASHINGTON — More troubled homeowners are dropping out of the Obama administration's main foreclosure-relief program, which has been widely crit...

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Geithner Meets With Advocates, Homeowners Bogged Down In Mortgage Program

HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Bank of America, Foreclosure Crisis, Mortgage Modficition, Home Affordable Modification Program, Tim Geithner, Hamp, Homeowners, Foreclosure Prevention, Pico, Housing Advocates, Treasury Secretary, Business News

WASHINGTON -- Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner met Wednesday with homeowner advocates and people who have struggled to get mortgage modifications from ...

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A No-Brainer: Spurring Job Creation at No Cost to Taxpayers

John Taylor | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Community Reinvestment, Small Business, Ncrc, Subprime Lending, Financial Services Committee, Wall Street Reform, Financial Reform, Foreclosure Prevention, Reform Cra, Foreclosure, Homeowners, John Taylor, Accountability, Politics News

If Washington is serious about addressing job creation, the White House and Congress should support the expansion of the Community Reinvestment Act, legislation that has invested over a trillion dollars into our economy during the past decade.

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Obama Housing Program Slowing To A Crawl While Homeowners Suffer

HuffingtonPost.com | Shahien Nasiripour | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Foreclosures, Housing Program, Hamp, Obama Foreclosures, Obama, Foreclosure Prevention, Business News

More than 18 months after President Barack Obama announced a $75 billion program to help three to four million homeowners avoid foreclosure, the admin...

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Bank Of America Foreclosure Plan: No Payments For Unemployed, If Approved

Posted: Sunday, Apr. 18, 2010 | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Hamp, Principal, Unemployment, Making Home Affordable, House Payment, Bank of America, Mortgage Crisis, Foreclosure, Foreclosure Prevention, Business News

A new program from Bank of America could allow unemployed mortgage holders to go for up to nine months without making a house payment. In return, Ba...

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Bank of America Trailing Behind Other Banks In Mortgage Relief

Washington Post | Renae Merle | Posted 05.25.2011

Bank of America employees are reminded every day of how far they still have to go. Just outside the elevators of their vast third-floor command center...

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Acorn Loses Bank Of America As Corporate Partner

Wall Street Journal | JAMES R. HAGERTY | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: JP Morgan Chase, Ethics Training, Foreclosure-Prevention, Banks, Acorn Housing, Lending, Wells Fargo, Michael Shea, Undercover Tapes, Tax Evasion, Census, Bank of America, Prostitution, Acorn, Foreclosure, Community Organizing, Politics News

Already facing the loss of federal government funding, the community-organizing group Acorn also has run afoul of one of its big corporate partners, B...

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