Foreclosures Prompt Cities to Make Plea for Aid
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Faced with the collapse of the subprime mortgage market that has pockmarked their cities with vacant houses, the nationâs mayors pleaded for a huge infusion of federal aid.
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Many houses of worship are under threat, crumbling from years of neglect, or becoming targets for acquisition by developers in neighborhoods where choice real estate is scarce.
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Aid agencies are appealing for funds to help the victims of recent floods in a swathe of African countries.
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The house Diana Hennigh wanted had been repossessed by a bank months earlier. It stood empty. It needed work. It was in a Prince William County neighborhood teeming with for-sale signs.
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The pace of foreclosure starts hit a record last quarter, but the Mortgage Bankers Association says the numbers are skewed by four large states.
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Six top mortgage companies on Tuesday launched a new program aimed at staving off foreclosure for seriously delinquent borrowers in the hopes that new, more affordable loan terms can be worked out.
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RIVERVIEW, Fla., Jan. 25 -- Piece by piece, as the economy has faltered and as the subprime mortgage crisis has taken hold, Ivan Toledo's grasp on his job, his house -- his entire middle-class life -- has come undone.
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In normal times, redevelopment of public housing to make way for mixed-income neighborhoods might have gone largely unopposed. But passions are high in hurricane-ravaged New Orleans, where residents are desperate for cheap housing.
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Late summer brought no relief from soaring foreclosures. The number of homes in some stage of default jumped 36 percent month-over-month in August, according to a regular monthly survey.
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A group of political leaders urged Gov. George Pataki on Sunday to designate a section of the city suffering from a prolonged power failure a disaster area, making it eligible for federal aid.
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The Bush administration today will propose a set of policies meant to help ease the wave of mortgage defaults, according to senior administration officials. It is the administration's first broad effort to deal with the rising number of home foreclosures, which are widely forecast to increase in the...
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A group of major mortgage lenders will allow some homeowners facing foreclosure to delay losing their homes for 30 days.
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The United States is calling on international lending institutions to reform their ways of operating so that they can give more aid to poor nations.
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The number of Americans who may lose their homes to foreclosure reached a record in the second quarter as late payments by subprime borrowers surged to one of every seven loans.
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Nations and businesses pledge aid to areas hit by Sunday's disaster.
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The Bush administration is challenging a court order requiring it to make housing payments to thousands of families whose homes were damaged by Hurricane Katrina.
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Mortgage lenders submitted a record 19,487 foreclosure filings in Massachusetts last year, leaving more homeowners in danger of losing their homes than at any time since the real estate recession of the 1990s.