Hope for Homeowners Foreclosure Assistance has not been Written Off as Hopeless
Posted on June 3, 2009
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The much hyped Hope for Homeowners, despite having helped only one person, has not yet been written off as hopeless. Congress is planning to put it back on its feet. HUD will be given more powers to find out a strategy for doing this with additional support from the Treasury.
It is now up to HUD streamline the policy of the new Hope for Homeowners programme. The options are whether the fees being asked from borrowers are lowered or the borrowers not pay part of the increasing house value. HUD has not come out with the details.
The clause about sharing the equity will not be removed. The ban on those borrowers who have been convicted in the past decade of fraud will also remain. Many think that this latter point of separating sinners from those who are the saints is going to be difficult.
HUD has been authorized by the law to offer incentives to the lenders as well as the servicers so that they participate in the programme without delay. It will ultimately help about 9 million according to the new Obama administration. The carrot that was hitherto missing in the previous plan is now being offered.
The servicers dealing with second mortgages would also be offered incentives. Alan White of Valparaiso University School of Law however commented that despite the new look the basic thing about the programme has remained the same – it is dependent on the voluntary cooperation of the borrowers. Hence nothing can be predicted for sure as to whether the second mortgage holders will accept the losses.
The Treasury will be expected all the servicers of loans who would be participating in this programme to offer the borrowers the refinancing plan if they are eligible. However, Rod Dubitsky of Credit Suisse said servicers do not have the right to ink new loans independently. The lender would have to give the green signal and the latter are not obliged to do so. The Treasury has not yet detailed how it hopes to overcome this hurdle of bringing about coordination between the lenders and servicers.
Chad Fisher owns NationsChoice. His mortgage bank refinanced the one and only loan under the Hope scheme. Fisher pointed out that modest banks like the one he owns depend on the larger banks to purchase their loans so that they have sufficient funds to keep granting new loans. But the big banks are now turning away posing another problem.
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