Articles Tagged With 'Making Home Affordable'
Profiles: Shoddy Bank Practices Continue Even After Mortgage Mods
Many homeowners have received a mortgage modification only to find themselves once again at risk of foreclosure because of errors by their mortgage company. ProPublica investigated six of these cases.
Lawsuit Reveals How a Middleman Is Blocking Mortgage Modifications for Homeowners
The suit is a window into a broken system where even though the actual investors, when asked, say they want to allow mortgage modifications, the bank that acts as their representative has refused to allow them.
New York State Foreclosure Mediation Shows Glimmers of Hope in Helping Homeowners
New York is requiring banks to sit down with homeowners before foreclosing. And it’s slowly starting to pay off.
Despite Praise From Banks, Treasury, In-House Loan Mods Provide Less Help to Homeowners
Banks’ own modifications typically reduce monthly payments by half as much as those made in the government program, making homeowners twice as likely to fall behind again after a modification.
The Government’s Incredible Shrinking Mortgage Mod Program
The U.S. government's effort to help struggling homeowners from defaulting on their mortgages is approaching a standstill, and the number of homeowners in ongoing mortgage modifications could start shrinking.
The Bailout Yearbook: The Stars and the Slackers
A half-trillion dollars later, the TARP bailout has produced moneymakers, slow payers and underachievers.
Mod Program Falling Short of Govt’s Vague Goals
The government's mortgage modification is on pace to fall short of even the administration's vague goals, while details on why homeowners are being disqualified from the program raise questions.
Homeowner Tips for Getting Loan Modifications
Homeowners dealing with the load modification process offer some tips to make sure others can succeed.
Loan Mod Profiles: For Some, a Modification
Permanent loan modifications can save homeowners from foreclosure, but for some, the help does not go far enough.
Loan Mod Profiles: In Trial Limbo
Extended trial periods delay answers and cause problems for homeowners looking for mortgage modifications.
Profiled Homeowner Gets a Mortgage Modification
Wells Fargo has finally given a loan modification to a long-frustrated homeowner who had feared foreclosure.
Loan Mod Profiles: Fed Up, Giving Up
A Baltimore homeowner tells why he walked away from his home rather than continue to deal with the loan modification program.
For Gov’t Mortgage Mod Program, New Numbers Show Old Problems
Homeowners still have long, costly waits in the federal foreclosure-prevention program.
Loan Mod Profiles: Delayed Then Denied, Often Mistakenly
Homeowners rejected for mortgage modifications tell of errors by their loan servicers.
Homeowner Questionnaire Shows Banks Violating Gov’t Program Rules
Mortgage servicers regularly break the government's loan modification rules, homeowners report to ProPublica.
Loan Mod Profiles: The Runaround
Many who are facing foreclosure say that paperwork errors and other problems are bogging down mortgage modifications.
The Reporting Matchmaker Is Looking for More Loan Mod Stories
Homeowners are trying to avoid foreclosure, and journalists want to tell their stories.
