HUD has scheduled a series of webcasts pertaining to ARRA implementation. They are all next week, May 12, 13, and 14. A description of each webcast, their dates and times can be found here.
The HUD webcast home page can be found here, where you can also link to archived webcasts, and get notice of upcoming webcasts.
FHFA has stated that business will continue as usual at the Enterprises during the conservatorship—this applies to both their single-family and multifamily businesses.
Please click here to view the full announcement.
The Federal Housing Finance Agency announced a new program designed to greatly reduce preventable foreclosures with a simplified, streamlined loan modification program to get struggling homeowners into mortgages that they can afford. FHFA believes it is an achievable goal if homeowners, banks, mortgage servicers, investors, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac all work together.
Please click here to view the full press release announcing the program.
Click here to read MacArthur’s eNewsletter
Solutions for Working Families: 2009 Learning Conference on State and Local Housing Policy featured sessions covering the full spectrum of housing policy issues. On this page you will find presentation and other resources related to many of the sessions.
BOSTON – March 16, 2009 –CHAPA and state officials unveiled a first-in-the-nation statewide clearinghouse program today aimed at taking back foreclosed properties throughout the state. Outside, in a New Bedford neighborhood deeply affected by foreclosures, CHAPA, along with Congressman Barney Frank, Governor Deval Patrick, Undersecretary Tina Brooks, New Bedford Mayor Scott Lang, and the New Bedford legislative delegation launched the new “Massachusetts Foreclosed Properties Initiative” today.
Please click here to view the full press release.
Please click here for the program fact sheet.