Brown Calls for End to Free Pass for Banks that Abandon Foreclosed Homes

CLEVELAND, OH – January 3, 2012 – (RealEstateRama) — After a bureau of the U.S. Treasury Department released new guidelines that amount to a free pass for banks to abandon foreclosed homes—fostering crime and leaving local taxpayers on the hook—U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH) today called for tougher standards to prevent the needless evictions of Ohio families and to forestall neighborhood blight.