Tenant Advocates Petition Federal Housing Administration to Stop Misleading Residents About Their Rights Under Federal Law

WASHINGTON, D.C. – February 23, 2011 – (RealEstateRama) — The National Housing Law Project, the National Low Income Housing Coalition, the National Law Center on Homelessness and Poverty and the Housing Justice Network have petitioned the Federal Housing Administration (FHA) to stop forcing lenders to give misleading and deceptive information to tenants in foreclosed homes – information that leads tenants to forego rights guaranteed to them by the federal Protecting Tenants at Foreclosure Act (PTFA)