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Foreclosures
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Help Gulf Coast victims keep homes
Washington, DC — Leading national and Gulf Coast Area organizations today called upon mortgage lenders and servicers to provide appropriate flexibility in the coming year so that homeowners in the areas devastated by Hurricanes Katrina… -
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Consumer/civil liberties response to housing bill
WASHINGTON, DC – October 24, 2007 - A coalition of consumer groups who work on housing and predatory lending issues released a statement today in reaction to legislation* introduced by Reps. Brad Miller (D-NC), Mel… -
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Cómo proteger su casa de una ejecución hipotecaria (2009)
La ejecución hipotecaria es el proceso legal que el prestamista hipotecario utiliza para quitarle su casa cuando usted se atrasa con las cuotas de su préstamo. Si usted corre el riesgo de una ejecución hipotecaria,… -
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Saving your home from foreclosure (2009) (Chinese)
當你付不起房屋抵押貸款時﹐貸款公司就會以法律行動將你的房子查封拍賣。如果在面臨這種情況時你瞭解有關個人的選擇權而且採取適當的行動﹐也許能夠保住家園﹐或者至少減輕一些房子被查封拍賣所造成的財務損失。 -
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Our lending law is worth saving
Everyone knows that lawmaking in Congress can be a crazy and confusing process. That’s part of the genius of the American system: It takes a lot of hard work and compromise to get a majority… -
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As foreclosures surge ...
he Obama administration sat by last week as 12 Senate Democrats joined 39 Senate Republicans to block a vote on an amendment that would have allowed bankruptcy judges to modify troubled mortgages. Senator Obama campaigned… -
Korean:
Saving Your Home from Foreclosure (2009) (Korean)
차압은 여러분이 모기지론 패이먼트를 제대로 납부하지 못할 때 여러분의 주택을 융자기관의 소유로 만들기 위한 법적인 절차입니다. 여러분이 어떻게 적절한 조치를 취하는 지를 이해할 경우 차압에 직면했을 때 여러분의 주택 소유를 유지하기 위해 노력하거나 차압에 의한… -
Vietnamese:
Saving Your Home from Foreclosure (2009) (Vietnamese)
Tịch thu nhà (foreclosure) là một tiến trình pháp lý chủ nợ nhà của quý vị dùng để lấy nhà của quý vị khi quý vị trễ hạn trả tiền nợ. Nếu quý vị bị… -
Outreach:
Consumer Action lends expertise to national housing initiative
Consumer Action attends a foreclosure prevention fair in Southern California to train event participants to spot scams and avoid fraud. -
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Cost of Fannie/Freddie keeps soaring for taxpayers
CASA GRANDE, Ariz. — Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac took over a foreclosed home roughly every 90 seconds during the first three months of the year. They owned 163,828 houses at the end of March,… -
Outreach:
Foreclosure hotline for tenants in California
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HUD to award $79 million in grants to reduce foreclosures
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Secretary Shaun Donovan announced Thursday that $79 million in federal grants will be made available to reduce foreclosures and assist families looking for housing. The money, a 36… -
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Title insurer stops writing policies for some foreclosures
Old Republic National Title Insurance, among the nation’s largest title insurance companies, will no longer write new policies for homes foreclosed upon by J.P. Morgan Chase and Ally Financial’s GMAC Mortgage unit –– a sign… -
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Avoid foreclosure market until dust settles
Are you out of your mind to even consider buying a foreclosed property right now? Todd Phelps and Paul Whitehead didn’t think they were last month when they were the winning bidders in a foreclosure… -
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Officials disagree on penalties for mortgage mess
Even as state attorneys general and regulators in Washington approach the end of their investigation into abuses by the nation’s biggest mortgage companies, deep disputes are emerging over how much to punish the banks as… -
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U.S. may force banks to meet loan-modification quotas
As part of a settlement with banks that engaged in shoddy foreclosure practices, the Obama administration is weighing whether to impose quotas that would force the firms to modify a specific number of mortgages for… -
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A.G.s and protesters seek sanctions for mortgage servicers
The state attorneys general investigating abuses in the mortgage servicing industry said Monday that as they hammer out details of a massive settlement with banks, their main objective remains fixing a system that has subjected… -
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B of A rejects idea of reducing home loans
Showing resistance for the first time against government pressure to write off tens of billions worth of mortgage debt, Bank of America executives said on Tuesday that the idea was unworkable and warned that it… -
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Concern over delay to help jobless pay mortgages
The Obama administration has delayed for several months the launch of a $1 billion effort to help unemployed homeowners avoid foreclosure, sparking fears the program is running out of time to help many borrowers. Congressional… -
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Major changes ahead for U.S. mortgage system
Fundamental changes are probably ahead for the American mortgage system as the federal government pushes to unwind its unprecedented involvement in the housing market. These changes could significantly raise the down payments demanded by lenders,… -
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Hacker group says BofA tried to hide loan information
A hacker group that calls itself Anonymous released a trove of e-mails Monday from a Bank of America unit in which employees discuss altering information in loan files. The e-mails, which were related to loans… -
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Foreclosure aid fell short, and is fading
Last summer, as President Obama’s premier plan to save millions of Americans from foreclosure foundered, the administration tossed a new life preserver to homeowners. Officials unveiled a $1 billion program to offer loans to help… -
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More talks on troubled homeowners’ fund
State attorneys general are descending on Washington again this week for negotiations with federal regulators and the nation’s largest mortgage servicers over the purpose of a multibillion-dollar fund aimed at helping troubled borrowers. The idea… -
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Pace of foreclosures slows down
Foreclosures are taking weeks longer to complete than a year ago and many now last 13 months or more. Nationwide, foreclosures in the first quarter took an average 400 days from default notice to the… -
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N.Y. investigates banks’ role in fiscal crisis
The New York attorney general has requested information and documents in recent weeks from three major Wall Street banks about their mortgage securities operations during the credit boom, indicating the existence of a new investigation…
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