Making Home Affordable

Matt Sledge

Occupy Protesters Help Former Marine Save Foreclosed Home

HuffingtonPost.com | Matt Sledge | Posted 02.28.2012

Read More: Occupy Minnesota, Hamp, Foreclosure Crisis, Video, Making Home Affordable, Monique White, Neighborhoods Organizing for Change, Occupy Wall Street, Bobby-Hull, Eviction, Bank of America, Redemption Period, Foreclosure, Occupy Our Homes, Business News

Bobby Hull was supposed be thrown out of his house this month. Instead, thanks partly to Occupy Wall Street activists, he may get to stay. Last wee...

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Loren Berlin

Government Expands Failed Homeowner Assistance Program, But It's Too Little Too Late

HuffingtonPost.com | Loren Berlin | Posted 01.27.2012

Read More: Citigroup Homeowner Assistance, Homeowners, Foreclosure Crisis, Foreclosure, Hamp, Loan Modifications, Making Home Affordable, Housing Crisis, Business News

The federal government is taking another stab at helping struggling homeowners keep their homes by expanding its failed loan modification program. Man...

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Will 2012 Be a Good Year for Homeowners or Banks?

Anna Cuevas | Posted 03.21.2012

Read More: Save Your Home, Foreclosure Crisis, Foreclosure, Hamp, Making Home Affordable, Anna Cuevas, Home Foreclosures, 2012 Foreclosures, Business News
Anna Cuevas

What will happen is anyone's guess. But if 2011 was any indication of things to come, it's possible that banks will begin to make the necessary changes to stop the bloodletting?

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Freddie Mac Offers Extension to Unemployed Homeowners

Anna Cuevas | Posted 03.12.2012

Read More: Anna Cuevas, Freddie-Mac-Loans, Hamp, Loan Modifications, Freddie Mac, Making Home Affordable, Unemployed Loan Modifictions, Business News
Anna Cuevas

One of the government's largest lenders, Freddie Mac, has announced that they're allowing their unemployed borrowers to extend the amount of time that their payments can be suspended or reduced.

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Loren Berlin

80 Percent of 'Eligible' Homeowners Can't Be Helped By Federal Program

HuffingtonPost.com | Loren Berlin | Posted 01.10.2012

Read More: Foreclosure Crisis, Loan Modifications, Making Home Affordable, Mortgage Crisis, Borrowers, Homeowners, Housing Crisis, Homeowner Eligibility, Business News

Less than 20 percent of homeowners who theoretically qualify for a government mortgage modification are actually eligible, according to data released ...

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Arthur Delaney

White House Doubles Down On Mortgage Modification Spin

HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 12.18.2011

Read More: Mortgages, Video, Hamp, Mortgage Modifications, Housing, Making Home Affordable, Home Affordable Modification Program, Foreclosure, Barack-Obama, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- President Obama said in 2009 that his flagship anti-foreclosure scheme would "enable as many as 3 to 4 million homeowners to modify the ...

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Arthur Delaney

Does This Family Deserve To Lose Its Home?

HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 12.17.2011

Read More: New Mexico Foreclosure, Video, Unemployment, New Mexico, Making Home Affordable, New Mexico Unemployment, Foreclosure, Steve Pearce, Business News

ALAMOGORDO, N.M. -- From next to the dead tree in his backyard, Ernie Soto can see the big house where he used to live. It's perched on the side of a ...

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Arthur Delaney

WATCH: Obama Administration Launches Sad Anti-Foreclosure PSA

HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 11.14.2011

Read More: Foreclosures, Video, Making Home Affordable, Home Affordable Modification Program, Business News

WASHINGTON -- The Obama administration on Wednesday unveiled a new TV advertisement for its anti-foreclosure programs. The spot shows stone-faced ...

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Arthur Delaney

Mortgage Modifications In Obama Program Dwindle Further As Administration Tut-Tuts Banks

HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 11.01.2011

Read More: Foreclosures, Home Affordable Refinance Program, Hamp, Making Home Affordable, Home Affordable Modification Program, Obama Foreclosures, Business News

WASHINGTON -- The Obama administration announced more disappointing numbers for its signature anti-foreclosure initiative and said Thursday that it wo...

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What We Shouldn't Leave to Debate: Our Nation's Priorities

Gary A. Officer | Posted 10.11.2011

Read More: Rebuilding, Nonprofits, Community, Education, Poverty, Making Home Affordable, Housing, Debt Ceiling, Low-Income, Veterans, Impact News
Gary A. Officer

Deficit reduction will hurt those that are most vulnerable: our nation's low-income and lower-middle class families, the backbone of America, living on the precipice of unthinkable loss.

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Arthur Delaney

New Mortgage Modifications Slow To Trickle Under Obama Anti-Foreclosure Program

HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 10.09.2011

Read More: Mortgages, Debt, Homeowners, Hamp, Making Home Affordable, Home Affordable Modification Program, Housing Crisis, Video, Business News

WASHINGTON -- Fewer homeowners entered preliminary mortgage modifications under the Obama administration's signature foreclosure prevention initiative...

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Shahien Nasiripour

Treasury Punishes Three Banks For Poor Mortgage Servicing

HuffingtonPost.com | Shahien Nasiripour | Posted 08.09.2011

Read More: JPMorgan Chase, Treasury Department, Hamp, Banks, Making Home Affordable, Teri Schrettenbrunner, Home Affordable Modification Program, Wells Fargo, Bank of America, Neil Barofsky, Barack Obama, Tim Massad, Business News

WASHINGTON -- The Treasury Department will temporarily withhold payments to the nation's three largest mortgage companies for failing to comply with t...

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Greener Homes Means a Stronger Economy

Shaun Donovan | Posted 08.03.2011

Read More: Green Jobs, Making Home Affordable, Global Warming, Affordable Housing, Green News
Shaun Donovan

Greening our homes is one of the keys to the 21st century economy -- and to out-innovating our competitors. And that real change requires leadership, solutions and capital from the private sector.

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Arthur Delaney

Leading House Dem Explains Vote To End Obama Admin's Foreclosure Program

HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 05.30.2011

Read More: Foreclosure, Hamp, Making Home Affordable, George Miller, Home Affordable Modification Program, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- Eighteen Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives sided with Republicans in a symbolic vote to terminate the Obama administration'...

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Arthur Delaney

House Votes To Terminate Obama Administration's Anti-Foreclosure Program

HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 05.29.2011

Read More: Foreclosures, Foreclosure, Foreclosure Crisis, Homeo Affordable Modification Program, Hamp, Making Home Affordable, House Republicans, Politics News

The U.S. House of Representatives voted Tuesday to terminate the Obama administration's signature anti-foreclosure effort, the beleaguered Home Afford...

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Arthur Delaney

When Banks Won't Help Homeowners, Scammers Help Themselves

HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Hamp, Loan Modifications, Mortgage Modifications, Making Home Affordable, Home Affordable Modification Program, Scam Artists, Foreclosure, Mortgage Scams, Foreclosure Scams, Housing Crisis, Business News

Clarification appended When Mohammed Shukran took some time off from driving his cab to care for two ailing family members in 2009, he began worryi...

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We Haven't Bottomed Yet... The Housing Crisis Continues

Hilary Kramer | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Mortgage Crisis, Homeowners, Making Home Affordable, Home Affordable Modification Program, Refinancing, Housing Crisis, Business News
Hilary Kramer

The housing market in the U.S. still faces considerable pressure -- even two years into "an economic recovery" (albeit a jobless one). This is best ev...

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HAMP Continues Sluggish Pace, But We Need to Fix It, Not Nix It

Dory Rand | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Foreclosure, Hamp, Loan Modifications, Making Home Affordable, Home Affordable Modification Program, Chicago News
Dory Rand

Pulling out support to distressed homeowners at this juncture would be disastrous for neighborhoods trying to recover from the foreclosure crisis.

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Rising Rents, Falling Recovery: Not Time to Retreat From Rental Housing

David M. Abromowitz | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Fannie Mae, Making Home Affordable, Housing Crisis, Rising Rents, San Jose, Renting, Business News
David M. Abromowitz

For many families, the extension of middle-class tax cuts will go out the door to their landlord. Economic recovery could be stopped in its tracks by sudden rent shock.

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The Cost of Surrendering the 30-Year Fixed Rate Mortgage Loan

Tanya D. Marsh | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Mortgage Crisis, Fannie Mae, Foreclosure, Freddie Mac, Making Home Affordable, Business News
Tanya D. Marsh

The 30-year fixed rate loan is an aberration that exists primarily because of government support.

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Arthur Delaney

Obama Administration's Foreclosure Program Shambles Along

HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Foreclosures, Mortgages, Hamp, Housing Hell, Making Home Affordable, Home Affordable Modification Program, Housing Crisis, Business News

WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Treasury Department announced Wednesday that more than 600,000 homeowners across the country have been granted "permanent" mort...

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Hope For Homeowners: Now I Know My NPV's -- HAMP

Anna Cuevas | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Anna-Cuevas, HAMP NPV, Askaloanmodguru, Foreclosure Crisis, Loan Modifications, Denied for NPV, Making Home Affordable, Anna Cuevas, Housing Crisis, Business News
Anna Cuevas

Meet Constantine. Constantine suffered some economic hardships due to him having to accept a lower paying job. This jeopardized his ability to save his longtime family home.

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Shahien Nasiripour

Michigan Family Says Obama Foreclosure-Prevention Program Cost Them Their Home

HuffingtonPost.com | Shahien Nasiripour | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Hamp, Foreclosure Crisis, No Way to Live, Loan Modifications, Making Home Affordable, Mortgage Modification, Home Affordable Modification Program, Foreclosure, Housing Crisis, Business News

The following story is produced in partnership with The Dylan Ratigan Show's week long "No Way To Live" series on the financial crisis and its impact ...

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Hope for Homeowners, 'Say HAMP'

Anna Cuevas | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Foreclosures, Hamp, Loan Modifications, The Loan Mod Guru, Making Home Affordable, Home Affordable Modification Program, Housing Crisis, Economic Crisis, Anna Cuevas, Business News
Anna Cuevas

Be your own best advocate, the only way you can do that is to get the information you need to so that you are empowered when you are trying to save your home.

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Houston, We Have a Problem With HAMP Loan Modifications

Anna Cuevas | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Askaloanmodguru, Bank of America Loan Modifications, Making Home Affordable, Anna Cuevas, Making Home Affordable Program, Hamp, Denied for HAMP, Fannie Mae, The Loan Mod Guru, Business News
Anna Cuevas

Although the latest HAMP guidelines require servicers to stop foreclosure action, it does not seem to be stopping very much. Homeowners continue to be confused about their foreclosure notices.

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