Last summer, as
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] premier plan to save millions of Americans from foreclosure foundered, the administration
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Officials unveiled a $1 billion
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] program to offer loans to help the jobless pay their
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]mortgages until they could find work again. It was supposed to take effect
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[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] program has yet to accept any applications.
“We wait and wait, and they keep saying
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]it’s coming,” said James Tyson, 50, a Philadelphia
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]homeowner who lost his job a year ago.
That could be an epitaph
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[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] foreclosure prevention effort, as tens of billions of dollars remain unspent and hundreds
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]of thousands of homeowners
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[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] Assistance Modification
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Saying it is a waste of money, the
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Republican-controlled House voted on Tuesday
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[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]program. The Senate, which the Democrats control, will pursue a rescue. But Democrats,
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] too, consider the program badly flawed.
The effort has failed
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and are now just barely above their
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] low, according to a key index updated
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“The banking industry
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]fought us tooth and nail, and we ended up with a program that is
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]failing homeowners,” said Representative
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, a Democrat from California. “The administration
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]doesn’t give us real enforcement or
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] answers; we just get the old yokey-doke.”
Yet the need remains great. There were
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] in February, according to RealtyTrac. About
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] 145,000 homeowners are in trial modifications
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] under the Obama program. An examination of federal documents and
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] lawsuits, and interviews with legislators, state attorneys general, housing counselors, homeowners
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]and regulators, reveal a federal mortgage modification program
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]crippled by weak oversight, conflicts of interest, mind-numbing complexity and poor performance by many
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For example:
¶Congress set aside $50 billion for
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]foreclosure prevention, amid administration projections that three million to four million homeowners
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]would benefit from modifications. So far, the
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], which oversees the program, has spent slightly more than $1 billion, and just 607,000 homeowners have received permanent
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] (of those, 11 percent have defaulted).