http://www.foreclosure-support.com/wp Foreclosure News, Articles, and Updated Homes Information Wed, 19 Nov 2008 12:01:56 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The charitable organization, MacArthur Foundation has committed $68 million to help organizations that fight the foreclosure problem in Chicago. The investment is considered as the most significant support provided by a private entity to help people avoid foreclosures. MacArthur Foundation aims to reduce the number of vacant properties to alleviate ... http://www.foreclosure-support.com/wp/article-1119222.html For quite a few Lansing City residents, it is either the devil or the deep blue sea. The economic crisis has affected wage earners, putting them in danger of eviction. Even those who can pay the rent face a similar crisis as landlords are losing properties to foreclosure. The housing crisis ... http://www.foreclosure-support.com/wp/article-1117220.html While Senator John McCain is urging the government to buy bad home loans, inadvertently making taxpayers pay for the difference between these and the homes' new values, Barack Obama is proposing a 90-day foreclosure freeze and encouraging the Treasury Department to work with various government agencies to help families in ... http://www.foreclosure-support.com/wp/article-1114218.html Sudden declines in home prices face the real estate industry, as a by-product of the increase in the number of foreclosure homes flooding the market. Prices have dropped tremendously, and in some cases down to half of what existing homes are originally worth. This resulted to an increase of "underwater" ... http://www.foreclosure-support.com/wp/article-1113216.html Schwarzenegger has presented his foreclosure moratorium proposal to legislators in the first week of November, including his proposals to increase taxes and reduce expenditures in order to reduce the state's budget deficit of $11 billion. The governor explained that two of the more effective ways to stimulate California's economy are to ... http://www.foreclosure-support.com/wp/article-1112213.html The U.S. Housing and Urban Development (HUD) will provide over $140 million in federal funds, under the Neighborhood Stabilization program, to help repair foreclosed homes in South Florida cities and counties. The program aims to repair neglected real properties which contributed to the decline of home market prices and the ... http://www.foreclosure-support.com/wp/article-1111211.html The issue of foreclosed homes is a widespread problem in Miami, from the southern areas of Miami-Dade County to the areas of Northern Broward County. According to lawmakers, once families are not able to make payments, they step out of their homes, the homeless move in, and the neighborhood crime climb ... http://www.foreclosure-support.com/wp/article-1110208.html Homeowners will really do anything to prevent foreclosure of their homes, even setting their own houses on fire. One of the cases of arson that had something to do with foreclosure prevention was that of Kevin J. Griffin from Dayton Avenue. He pled guilty this October after admitting setting his home ... http://www.foreclosure-support.com/wp/article-1108206.html If you are wondering whether or not mortgage lenders have been helping homeowners stay in their homes and avoid foreclosure, you might get your answer from the most recent foreclosure data for Los Angeles. Foreclosure rate dropped for the month of October after a state law was passed last July ... http://www.foreclosure-support.com/wp/article-1107204.html To avert the potentially disastrous situation of millions of Americans with foreclosed homes, 31 states have introduced various programs to help borrowers keep their homes and to prevent mortgage firms from imposing high interest rates on mortgage loans, as described in a publication by Pew Charitable Trusts. The report, which ... http://www.foreclosure-support.com/wp/article-1107202.html