Crossed posted from WhiteHouse.gov This week, the Administration announced three new housing initiatives aimed at building on our efforts to connect struggling homeowners to the Administration’s foreclosure prevention programs. Our goal is to ensure that responsible Americans who qualify for federal mortgage assistance have the necessary information to benefit from the programs available to help [...]
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Looking for a housing counselor or want to learn more about your fair housing rights? The answer may be on your smart phone or tablet! Recently, HUD launched two new mobile apps designed to help consumers learn about and enforce their housing rights and how to get the help they need from hundreds of HUD-approved [...]
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Home is where the heart is, it’s true, but what if you don’t have a home or you’re at risk of losing the one you have? The fine print of a lease agreement or the complexity of buying your first home puts most of us at a distinct disadvantage. So, most folks just close their [...]
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American families are all too familiar with the story: just when they thought they had achieved the dream of owning their own home, abuses in the financial and mortgage sector came back to haunt them and sent them spiralling into foreclosure – often through no fault of their own. Countless other families are still struggling [...]
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In an effort to continue providing quality housing counseling to America’s homeowners, buyers and renters, HUD announced today the availability of $2 million in housing counseling grants. These funds are available to provide training activities that will improve and standardize the quality of counseling provided by HUD-approved housing counseling agencies. This year, HUD’s Housing Counseling [...]
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