More than $3 million has been sanctioned by the Ohio Housing Finance Agency. It will enable counseling agencies to operate with counseling through 18 centres across the state. This $3.06 million grant emanates from the National Foreclosure Mitigation Counseling Program and it is part of $180 million action taken by the Congress in its fiscal [...]

The foreclosure virus is spreading. ACORN is a national organization scrutinizing its effect on low and middle-income communities. ACORN is working to empower communities to fight for social justice. Its report is very exposing and revealing. In April this year 535 families of St. Paul and Minneapolis were served foreclosure notices. In St. Paul the [...]

Hundreds and thousands of Iowans are ruing the day they took sub-prime loans. The situation is so alarming and grim that the state’s attorney general, Miller, has set up a hot line and sketched out a plan of action to help borrowers negotiate with the lenders for new terms. It is reminiscent of the 1980 [...]

June is the month for celebrating National Home Ownership. The purpose is to inculcate into the people the value of putting down roots – lighting the home fires under a roof of one’s own. It is a common American dream, which has suddenly become a nightmare. Property prices are tumbling, foreclosures are rising and the [...]