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Bailout Watchdog: Obama Foreclosure Plan Inadequate, New Direction Needed

HuffingtonPost.com | Shahien Nasiripour | Posted 12.09.2009 | Business

This story has been updated Add Elizabeth Warren, the Harvard Law professor-turned-crusader for Main Street and the middle class, to the growing list...

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Barney Frank Calls For $4 Billion In TARP Funds To Help Unemployed Homeowners, Fight Urban Blight

HuffingtonPost.com | Shahien Nasiripour | Posted 12.08.2009 | Business

Read More: Foreclosures, Foreclosure Crisis, Unemployment, Making Home Affordable, Congressional Black Caucus, Financial Reform, Homeownership, Financial Crisis, Homeowners, Financial Regulation, Barney Frank, Business News

A revision to the House financial reform bill adds $3 billion in federal aid to help unemployed people facing foreclosure and $1 billion to fight urba...

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Anatomy Of A Failed Foreclosure Program

HuffingtonPost.com | Shahien Nasiripour | Posted 12.07.2009 | Business

Read More: Foreclosures, Foreclosure Crisis, Loan Modification, Making Home Affordable, Mortgage Modification, Mha, Homeowners, Barack Obama, JPMorgan Chase, Hamp, Home Affordable Modification Program, Homeownership, Financial Crisis, Business News

Just how badly is President Obama's $75 billion foreclosure program working out? Consider these newly-released numbers: Out of every 100 homeowners wh...

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At Last, One Government Agency Considers Cutting Mortgage Principal For Distressed Homeowners

HuffingtonPost.com | Shahien Nasiripour | Posted 12.04.2009 | Business

FDIC Chairman Sheila Bair indicated Thursday that she is exploring the idea of reducing the principal on as much as $45 billion in mortgages her agenc...

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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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Dems Want Unspent TARP Funds For Main Street Bailout

Posted 11.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: Small Business Loans, Wall Street Bailout, Recovery, Congress, Unused Tarp Money, Federal Deficit, Leftover Tarp Funds, Peter DeFazio, Jobs, Homeowners, Obama, Democrats, Defazio, Main Street, Barney Frank, House, Deficit, Earl Blumenauer, Senate, Unemployment, White House, Financial Crisis, Extra Tarp Money, Bank Bailout, Leftover Tarp Money, Tarp, Republicans, Politics News

Democrats in Congress want to use unspent TARP funds to support homeowners and struggling workers, according to The Hill. More than half of the Democ...

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Goldman Sachs Seizing Homes Subprime Mortgages Bought

McClatchy | Greg Gordon | Posted 11.02.2009 | Business

Read More: Mtglq, Cases, Hank Paulson, Lawsuits, Middle Class, Suits, Goldman Sachs Subsidiaries, Housing Crisis, Working Class, Goldman Sachs, Judge Roger Efremsky, Lenders, Home Prices, Foreclosure, Subprime, Repossession, Roger Efremsky, Ge, Mortgage Brokers, Mortgage Crisis, Homeowners, Securities Exchange Commission, WMC Mortgage Corp, Judge William Aslup, Wall Street, GE Money, Wiliam Aslup, Henry Paulson, Banks, Sec, Subsidiaries, Business News

Goldman spent years buying hundreds of thousands of subprime mortgages, many of them from some of the more unsavory lenders in the business, and packa...

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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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Chinese Drywall: Insurers Dropping Coverage For Thousands Of Homeowners

Wall Street Journal | M.P. McQueen | Posted 10.14.2009 | Business

Read More: Homeowner-Insurance, Universal Group Inc, Insurance, Universal North America, Chinese Drywall, Homeowners, Drywall, Insurance Companies, Consumer Product Safety Commission, Business News

At least two home insurers in Florida have begun dropping policyholders who filed claims for property damage linked to drywall imported from China. D...

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Bank of America Trailing Behind Other Banks In Mortgage Relief

Washington Post | Renae Merle | Posted 10.12.2009 | Business

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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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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Targeting the Scattershot Home Buying Tax Credit

David M. Abromowitz | Posted 10.06.2009 | Business

Read More: Home Buyers, Homeowners, Foreclosure, First-Time Homebuyers Credit, Tax Credit, Home Sales, Business News

Four out of five buyers were handed $8,000 by other taxpayers for a purchase they would have made anyway. The Obama administration could do better by targeting the credit to people who need it.

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Government Pays Mortgage Servicers Billions, While Homeowners Suffer

McClatchy Newspapers | Chris Adams | Posted 10.04.2009 | Business

WASHINGTON -- The federal government is engaged in a massive mortgage modification program that's on track to send billions in tax dollars to many of ...

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Rubble, Rubble

Lita Smith-Mines | Posted 12.01.2009 | Living

Read More: Homeless, Foreclosures, Homeowners, Business, Housing, Housing Crisis, Home Foreclosures, Living News

My trash themed take-away at the end of my car trip? Not all that litters is old, nor is all garbage created equal.

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Minorities More Likely To Be Denied Refinancing

HuffingtonPost.com | Shahien Nasiripour | Posted 12.01.2009 | Business

Read More: Financial Crisis, Mortgages, Homeowners, Race, Hmda, Homeownership, Business News

First, minorities were disproportionately steered by lenders into subprime loans. Now there's news that they're disproportionately being denied when t...

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Nightmare On Elm and Maple Streets

Lita Smith-Mines | Posted 11.23.2009 | Business

Read More: Attorneys, Stress, Tax Credits, First-Time-Buyer, Homeowners, Real Estate, Housing Crisis, Short Sales, Home Foreclosures, Business News

Since Labor Day passed, I have felt less like a real estate lawyer and more like a character actor in an awful horror movie.

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Who Owns Your Mortgage? "Produce The Note" Movement Helps Stall Foreclosures

HuffingtonPost.com | Shahien Nasiripour and Ryan Grim | Posted 11.22.2009 | Business

Read More: Securitization, Mortgages, Show Me the Note, Produce the Note, Judges, Marcy Kaptur, Mortgage Crisis, Financial Crisis, Foreclosure, Homeowners, Mortgage Note, Brad Miller, Business News

Modern-day home mortgages have been so sliced and diced by rapacious financiers that some homeowners are successfully delaying -- or even blocking -- ...

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What Do You Know? It's National Singles Week

Bella DePaulo | Posted 11.20.2009 | Living

Our perceptions of single people and their place in society have not caught up with the realities. How well do you know your single people? Take this quiz.

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Even the Losers Get Lucky Sometimes

Lita Smith-Mines | Posted 11.16.2009 | Living

Read More: Attorneys, Stress, Foreclosure Crisis, Therapy, Housing Prices, Housing Market, Homeless, Mortgage Crisis, Homeowners, Real Estate, Housing Slump, Home Foreclosures, Living News

A former client sadly related that her home is "worth less than $600,000 and we owe close to $800,000. I can't sleep. I can't eat. I can't believe what I've lost."

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Unable To Sell Their Houses, Millions Of Homeowners Are Turning Into Landlords

HuffingtonPost.com | Shahien Nasiripour | Posted 11.14.2009 | Business

Read More: Becoming Landlords, Renting Their Homes, Housing Crisis, Homeowners, Renters, Business News

Buying a new house last December was an easy decision for Brad and Melanie Juarros. They had been eyeing foreclosed properties for months in their Sa...

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Homeowners: The War Games Have Begun

Iris Martin | Posted 11.11.2009 | Business

Now it's time for the predatory lenders, brokers and foreclosure consultants to sweat. Here is the skinny on what to do and not do in your own mortgage war.

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Cramdown Is Back: Banks Against Homeowners, Round 2

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 11.08.2009 | Politics

Read More: Barney Frank, Dick Durbin, Bankruptcy Reform, Banks, Harry Reid, Henry Paulson, Homeowners, Cramdown, Politics News

Cramdown is back. House Financial Services Committee Chairman Barney Frank (D-Mass.) tells the Huffington Post he plans to revive the effort to give...

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HuffPost Readers: Are You A Homeowner Turned Landlord?

Huffington Post | Shahien Nasiripour | Posted 10.23.2009 | Business

Read More: Housing Market, Homeowners, Renters, Recession, Housing Crisis, Housing Slump, Income, Landlords, Business News

The Huffington Post is examining the fallout from the housing bust, and we're looking for homeowners who have become landlords. Are you trying to su...

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California Residents Return To Survey Fire Damage

AP | GREG RISLING and RAQUEL MARIA DILLON | Posted 10.19.2009 | Green

Read More: Natural Disasters, Humidifity, California, Jennifer Sanchez, Wildfires, Homeowners, Weather, Forest Service, Extreme Weather, Green News

LOS ANGELES — Investigators launched a homicide investigation Thursday into the wildfire north of Los Angeles after determining that the giganti...

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Reluctant Landlords: More Homeowners Renting Out Their Homes

The Wall Street Journal | M.P. MCQUEEN | Posted 10.18.2009 | Business

Read More: Housing Trends, Real-Estate, Renting, Foreclosure, Mortgages, Tenants, Landlords, Homeowners, Apartment Vacancy Rates, Housing Prices, Housing Crisis, Rental Homes, Business News

Hard data are scant on how many homeowners are renting out their homes, but anecdotal evidence suggests numbers are up. In one indication of the trend...

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