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Levin, Stabenow Announce Michigan Housing Agencies to Receive $1.3 Million in Grants for Housing...
WASHINGTON, DC- March 28, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- Seven Michigan housing agencies will receive more than $1.3 million in grants to help provide housing for homeless veterans, Sens. Carl Levin and Debbie Stabenow announced Tuesday.
LATHAM VOTES TO EXPAND ASSISTANCE TO HOMELESS VETERANS
Washington, DC - March 28, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- Iowa Congressman Tom Latham on Tuesday voted in favor of bipartisan legislation to extend new help to homeless veterans.
Murphy Announces New Federal Housing Dollars for Homeless Vets in Waterbury
WASHINGTON, DC - March 27, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- Congressman Chris Murphy today announced that the Waterbury Housing Authority will receive $257,629 for 40 vouchers to help the region's homeless veteran population through the U.S. Department of Ho...
HUD Secretary Donovan, AG Gansler Highlight Mortgage Settlement Benefits for Maryland Families with State,...
Largo, MD - March 27, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- Maryland Attorney General Douglas F. Gansler joined U.S. Housing and Urban Development Secretary Shaun Donovan today for an informal roundtable discussion of the $25 billion National Mortgage Servicing S...
Governor Quinn Addresses Illinois Association of Realtors Emphasizes Administration’s Commitment to Affordable Housing and...
SPRINGFIELD, IL - March 27, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- Governor Pat Quinn today addressed the Illinois Association of Realtors Conference in Springfield. March is Affordable Housing Month, and the Governor’s remarks emphasized his administration’s ...
Grijalva Hails Bank of America Program to Keep Families Facing Foreclosure in Homes as...
Washington, D.C. - March 27, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- Rep. Raúl M. Grijalva today hailed a new Bank of America pilot program that will offer a small number of customers facing foreclosure the option to remain in their homes as renters for up to thre...
HUD, VA TO PROVIDE PERMANENT HOUSING AND SUPPORT TO MORE THAN 10,000 HOMELESS VETS
WASHINGTON, DC - March 27, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- U.S. Housing and Urban Development Secretary Shaun Donovan and U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric K. Shinseki announced today that HUD will provide $72.6 million to public housing ag...
Another Bank of America Short Sale CLOSED by The Ballen Group of Keller Williams...
Las Vegas, NV - March 26, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- The Ballen Group, a top team of Las Vegas Short Sale Specialists under the brokerage Keller Williams Realty Las Vegas has put together a comprehensive Las Vegas Short sale system for sellers. Homeown...
VA Launches “Project REACH” Contest With HUD and Jon Bon Jovi Soul Foundation to...
WASHINGTON, DC- March 20, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- The Department of Veterans Affairs launched a new contest today to help the people who help the homeless. It challenges the developer community to create easy, mobile access to resources that the ho...
Survey Shows Banks Should Cut Mortgages
Destin, FL - March 20, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- Banks and mortgage lenders should slash the balance on mortgages owed by all homeowners in light of the housing crisis blamed heavily on U.S. bankers, according to a new Housing Predictor survey.
ENGEL ANNOUNCES $556,106 HOMELESS GRANT FOR ROCKLAND
Washington, DC - March 19, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- Rockland County’s Office of Community Development was awarded a $556,106 Continuum of Care Homeless Assistance grant from the Department of Housing and Urban Development to provide assistance to h...
County secures more than $7 million for homeless
March 15, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- A combination of funding for new and renewed project grants awarded by the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) will provide the County of San Bernardino more than $7 million to furnish tr...
Schuette Issues Second Subpoena in Criminal Probe of Mortgage Processors
LANSING, MI - March 13, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette today announced that he has issued a second criminal investigative subpoena against national mortgage servicing support provider DocX as his office continues to ...
SEC Charges Three Mortgage Executives With Fraudulent Accounting Maneuvers in Midst of Financial Crisis
Washington, D.C. - March 13, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged the senior-most executives at formerly one of the nation’s largest mortgage companies with hiding the company’s deteriorating financial con...
HUD AWARDS $201 MILLION FOR NEW LOCAL HOMELESS PROGRAMS
WASHINGTON, DC - March 13, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- U.S. Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Secretary Shaun Donovan today awarded nearly $201 million to support 731 new local homeless programs across the country. This funding provides critically ne...
Best U S Home Bargain Cities
Destin, FL - March 12, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- It took months of research but then it finally came all together. Finding the best bargain homes in the U.S. was no easy task, but Housing Predictor analysts lived up to the challenge and found eight ci...
More Homeowners Will Walk from Mortgages
Destin, FL - March 7, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- Five years into the housing downturn, a larger number of homeowners with mortgages say they will walk away from their homes if their property values continue to drop, according to a new Housing Predictor...
Attorney General Kamala D. Harris Joins Legislative Leaders to Unveil California Homeowner Bill of...
SACRAMENTO, CA - February 29, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- Attorney General Kamala D. Harris today announced the California Homeowner Bill of Rights designed to protect homeowners from unfair practices by banks and mortgage companies and to help consumer...
Survey Shows Majority Want to Buy Homes
Destin, FL - February 22, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- A large majority of respondents to a new Housing Predictor survey said they want to buy their first home or purchase another home, indicating that pent-up demand is growing in the U.S. housing market...
Mortgage Forgiveness Debt Relief Act Expires Dec 31 2012!
Las Vegas, NV - February 20, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- If you’ve been thinking about doing a short sale on your Nevada home, you might want to hurry up. The time is limited for homeowners who want to ensure they aren’t hit with a big tax bill beca...
Attorney General Doug Gansler Secures Nearly $1 Billion For Victims of Mortgage Crisis
Baltimore, MD - February 13, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- Attorney General Douglas F. Gansler today announced a settlement with the nation's five largest mortgage servicers, bringing a projected $960 million in monetary benefits and relief to distressed ...
Attorney General Kamala D. Harris Secures $18 Billion California Commitment for Struggling Homeowners
LOS ANGELES, CA - February 10, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- Attorney General Kamala D. Harris today announced an historic commitment to California of up to $18 billion that will benefit hundreds of thousands of homeowners in the state hardest hit by the ...
Attorney General Koster announces preliminary support for proposed multistate settlement with mortgage servicing industry
Jefferson City, MO - February 9, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- Attorney General Chris Koster announced today that he has given preliminary support to a proposed multistate agreement with some of the largest financial institutions in the country to settle ...
UN: Sacramento is Violating Human Rights of Homeless Persons
SACRAMENTO, CA - February 6, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- In an unprecedented letter to Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson, the United Nations has delivered a clear message: by not providing sanitation and safe drinking water, the city is violating the human...
PREPARE YOUR HOME FOR AN EARTHQUAKE
PEARL - February 1, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- The Mississippi Emergency Management Agency and local emergency management offices encourage residents to check for potential hazards in their homes in case of an earthquake.
Most Likely Housing Markets to Recover Announced
Destin, FL - January 30, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- The five most likely U.S. metropolitan housing markets forecast to recover in 2012 are being announced by Housing Predictor, which forecasts more than 230 cities housing markets. The pack is lead by M...
The State of Homelessness in America Report Suggests Risk of Homelessness Persists for Many...
WASHINGTON, D.C. - January 25, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- Despite a slight decrease in the overall number of people experiencing homelessness, indicators suggest that homelessness may affect more and more Americans in the coming years. In a report to b...
Statewide Homeless Point-in-Time Count to be Conducted Wednesday
SALT LAKE CITY, UT - January 25, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- Public, private and non-profit homeless service providers will conduct an annual Point-In-Time Count of the homeless population in Utah on Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2012.
GAO Report Shows VA’s Shortcomings in Dealing with the Rising Number of Homeless Women...
Washington, D.C.) - January 25, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- A Government Accountability Office (GAO) report released today showed that the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has had difficulty in planning for and meeting the unique needs of a growing n...
Pent Up Buyer Demand in Real Estate Promises Rebound
Destin, FL - January 24, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- Despite the troubled U.S. economy, pent up buyer demand in the real estate market promises that 2012 will provide a major rebound in home sales, according to a new Housing Predictor poll.
