A defining feature of the 2008 recession was the staggering number of people who lost their homes. While there were 717,522 foreclosures in 2006, according to the Pew Research Center, that number ...

Metrics for the Making Home Affordable Program (HAMP) improved substantially during March according to data released late Wednesday by the Treasury Department. The foreclosure prevention program, a ...

The Obama Administration has released April data for the Home Affordable Mortgage Program (HAMP). The number of homeowners who completed HAMP's mandatory 90 day trial period and were converted into ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. So the US Treasury’s centrepiece mortgage modification programme — Hamp — is something of a failure. That much ...

If you’re struggling to make your monthly mortgage payment, losing your home can become an all-encompassing fear. But, there are two lifelines available through the federal government: the Home ...

NEW YORK -- The Obama administration is taking another swing at improving its main foreclosure prevention program. The administration said it was expanding eligibility for its Home Affordable ...

WASHINGTON — While Republicans and Democrats largely agree that the government's Home Affordable Modification Program is a failure, the two sides disagree sharply on what to do about it. Democrats are ...

The Home Affordable Modification Program will expire at the end of this year, and experts from the industry talked about its replacement: One Mod: Principles for Post-HAMP Loan Modification at the ...

Late in April, I went on Fox Business TV news to discuss the Home Affordable Modification Program with Gerri Willis. About halfway through the interview, Gerri asked me if I felt “government should ...

Banks may soon be required to screen and reject homeowners for the government's Home Affordable Modification Program (HAMP) before they can go forward with a foreclosure. That's the proposal lenders ...

President Barack Obama’s main foreclosure-prevention program is a failed effort that may be doing more harm than good by spreading the housing crisis over several years, lawmakers and a U.S. watchdog ...

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