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Legislating Lower Foreclosure Rates?
An Illinois law intended to help reduce foreclosures is drawing cries of discrimination from some of the people it is trying to protect, according to the Chicago Defender newspaper. “Nearly 60 days after Illinois House Bill 4050 went into effect to supposedly protect consumers from predatory lenders, a coalition of Black and Latino city residents say the new law is actually destroying property values in select minority communities.” The law is a pilot program that is being applied in 10 Chicago zip codes chosen for their high foreclosure rates, among other factors.
www.foreclosurepulse.com
- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
Credit Card and Mortgage Debt Fuels Foreclosure
Among the hardest-hit states were California, Florida, Texas, Michigan, Illinois and Ohio. Rising interest rates have caught many homeowners in a “can’t pay, can’t sell, can’t refinance” vise, in which their ARM payments are outpacing their incomes and their homes have not appreciated enough to help cover the cost of a refinanced mortgage or to allow them to sell and walk away. Debt! No word better describes why millions of Americans are now facing foreclosure.
www.foreclosurepulse.com
- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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- Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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Legislating Lower Foreclosure Rates?
An Illinois law intended to help reduce foreclosures is drawing cries of discrimination from some of the people it is trying to protect, according to the Chicago Defender newspaper. “Nearly 60 days after Illinois House Bill 4050 went into effect to supposedly protect consumers from predatory lenders, a coalition of Black and Latino city residents say the new law is actually destroying property values in select minority communities.” The law is a pilot program that is being applied in 10 Chicago zip codes chosen for their high foreclosure rates, among other factors.
www.foreclosurepulse.com
- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Now Homebuilders Face Foreclosure
For millions of Americans facing foreclosure, the Federal Reserve’s interest rate cut this week was welcome news that could possibly help save thousands of homeowners from default by giving them the opportunity to refinance their adjustable-rate loan into a fixed-rate mortgage with a lower interest rate. in Illinois. “We’re in the worst housing recession in modern history,” Antonio B. But for many U.S. homebuilders the risk of foreclosure through bankruptcy has sharply risen under the pressure of the grim housing market.
www.foreclosurepulse.com
- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Credit Card and Mortgage Debt Fuels Foreclosure
Among the hardest-hit states were California, Florida, Texas, Michigan, Illinois and Ohio. Rising interest rates have caught many homeowners in a “can’t pay, can’t sell, can’t refinance” vise, in which their ARM payments are outpacing their incomes and their homes have not appreciated enough to help cover the cost of a refinanced mortgage or to allow them to sell and walk away. Debt! No word better describes why millions of Americans are now facing foreclosure.
www.foreclosurepulse.com
- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Governor Suspends Controversial Law Affecting Investors
Responding to the public outcry of legislative redlining, equal protection violations, and racial discrimination against minority residents living in certain Chicagoland areas, Illinois Gov. For legitimate investors looking to help homeowners in distress, the law’s suspension is welcome news. With HB 4050 effectively dead, homeowners — some of whom have taken out second and even third It was controversial when it took effect, and it remained controversial until public officials decided enough was enough – roughly a little more than a year later. But House Bill 4050 (renamed Public
www.foreclosurepulse.com
- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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As Foreclosures Mount, Candidates React to the Credit Crisis
With mortgage foreclosures at historic highs, Democrats and Republicans are fighting over a political issue that could have major implications in the 2008 presidential campaign. Meanwhile, the rising flood of foreclosures promises to become a major presidential campaign issue in the weeks and months ahead because an alarming 2 million American homeowners could lose their homes by November 2008. Sensing an opportunity to win votes, the major presidential candidates have come out swinging; proposing a variety of prescriptions to ease the worsening housing slump.Both the White House and Democrat leaders in Congress agree that something must be done to stop the foreclosures.
www.foreclosurepulse.com
- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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FBI: Mortgage Fraud Begets Foreclosure
The correlation is apparent in the report’s list of the top states for mortgage fraud: California, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, New York, Ohio, Texas, and Utah. These investors will forgo jumping through the legal loopholes to help distressed homeowners and just wait for the public auction, or until the property has been repossessed by the lender. The FBI recently came out with its 2006 Mortgage Fraud Report , which somewhat anticlimactically concludes that there is “a strong correlation between mortgage fraud and loans which result in default or foreclosure.”
www.foreclosurepulse.com
- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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