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Shahien Nasiripour

Obama Administration To Shame Lenders That Don't Offer To Modify Mortgages

HuffingtonPost.com | Shahien Nasiripour | Posted 11.30.2009 | Business

Read More: Foreclosure Crisis, Making Home Affordable, Elizabeth Warren, Mortgage Servicers, Mha, Home Affordable Modification, Homeowners, Barack Obama, Mortgages, Hamp, Bailout Bandits, Loan Modifications, Bailout, Financial Crisis, Foreclosure, Congressional Oversight Panel, Business News

Its signature foreclosure-prevention plan having definitively failed to actually help very many homeowners, the Obama administration today announced ...

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Shahien Nasiripour

The Economist The Obama Administration Should Have Listened To

HuffingtonPost.com | Shahien Nasiripour | Posted 11.12.2009 | Business

Read More: Financial Crisis, Loan Modification, Subprime Mbs, Making Home Affordable, Geanakoplos, John Geanakoplos, Home Affordable Modification, Loan Mods, Mbs, Mortgages, Hamp, Bailout Bandits, Subprime Mortgages, Bailout, New York Times, Susan Koniak, Mortgage-Backed Securities, Home Loan Mods, The Economist, The Economist That Obama Should Have Listened To, Business News

Eight months ago, the Obama administration launched a plan to help troubled homeowners avoid foreclosure by providing $75 billion in taxpayer funds to...

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Shahien Nasiripour

For The "Lucky Few" Who Renegotiate Their Mortgages, Towering Debt Remains

HuffingtonPost.com | Shahien Nasiripour | Posted 10.22.2009 | Business

Read More: Subprime Mortgages, Loan Modifications, Subprime Mortgage Crisis, Mortgage Crisis, Home Affordable Modification, Financial Crisis, Homeowners, Congressional Oversight Panel, Business News

A Huffington Post analysis of recent mortgage-modification data shows that even those relatively few homeowners fortunate enough to renegotiate their ...

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Home Rescue Plan Delaying, Not Solving Crisis

Reuters | Nick Carey & Al Yoon | Posted 10.13.2009 | Business

Read More: Rescue Plan, Home Rescue Plan, Housing, Home Rescue, Making Home Affordable Program, Home Affordable Modification, Housing Crisis, Recession, Business News

Within weeks of taking office, U.S. President Barack Obama rode to the rescue of homeowners resigned to financial ruin. Obama, grappling with the wor...

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Shahien Nasiripour

Mortgage Loan Modification: More Offers Extended, Fewer Homeowners Accepting -- Are Homeowners Losing Hope?

HuffingtonPost.com | Shahien Nasiripour | Posted 10.09.2009 | Business

Read More: Mortgages, Treasury Department, Loan Modifications, Mortgage Modification, Making Home Affordable, Mortgage Servicers, Behavioral Economics, Home Affordable Modification, Mortgage Crisis, Financial Crisis, Obama Administration, Homeowners, Business News

While the Obama administration and reporters trumpet the fact that the administration is about a month early in reaching its stated goal of modifying ...

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Making Home Affordable: The Waiting Game

HuffPost's Eyes & Ears | Margo Irvin | Posted 09.10.2009 | Business

Read More: Loan Modifications, Making Home Affordable, Bailout, Home Affordable Modification, Financial Crisis, Foreclosure, Housing Crisis, Dispatches From the Displaced, Recession, Mortgage Crisis, Business News

Last week, the US Treasury reported that only 9% of eligible homeowners had been helped by the Obama Administration's Making Home Affordable program. ...

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Banks Still Cheating People Out of Their Homes

Mike Elk | Posted 09.05.2009 | Business

Read More: Evan Bayh, Loan Modifications, Predatory Lending, Making Home Affordable, Wall Street, Campaign Contributions, Lobbyists, Dick Durbin, Blue Dogs, Home Affordable Modification, Max Baucus, Foreclosure, Center for American Progress, Cramdown, Business News
Mike Elk

We can't allow Wall Street to go on cheating people out of the most important possession of their lives -- their home.

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Homeowners Seeking "Making Home Affordable" Loan Modifications Frustrated By Inefficiency

Huffington Post | Margo Irvin | Posted 07.23.2009 | Eyes & Ears

Read More: Home Affordable Modification, Foreclosure, Loan Modifications, Making Home Affordable, Dispatches From the Displaced, Mha, Housing Crisis, Ee, Loan Modification, Eyes & Ears News

Lost paperwork, miscommunications and delays are some of the difficulties homeowners face in the loan modification process.

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Obama's Homeowners' Bailout: Is It Really Making Home Affordable?

Huffington Post | Margo Irvin | Posted 07.16.2009 | Business

Read More: Obama Housing Crisis, Homeowners Bailout, Home Affordable Refinance Program, Making Home Affordable, Ocwen, Mortgage Crisis, Home Affordable Modification, Dispatches From the Displaced, Housing Crisis, Ee, Home Foreclosures, Bailout, Zombeck, Home Affordable Modification Program, Business News

The $75 billion "homeowners' bailout" may only delay the inevitable for many who currently face foreclosure.

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Obama's Homeowners' Bailout: Is It Working?

Posted 07.13.2009 | Business

Read More: Making Home Affordable, Bailout, Obama Bail Out, President Obama, Obama Homeowner Bailout, Home Affordable Modification, Financial Crisis, Foreclosure, Dispatches From the Displaced, Barack Obama, Housing Crisis, Home Foreclosures, Ee, Business News

In our series, Dispatches from the Displaced, HuffPost's Eyes & Ears has highlighted the stories of Americans who are facing foreclosure or who have a...

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