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The Mortgage Forgiveness Debt Relief Act of 2007 was introduced in the United States Congress on September 25, 2007, and signed into law by President George W. Bush on December 20, 2007. This act offers relief to homeowners who would have owed taxes on forgiven mortgage debt after facing foreclosure.
The American subprime mortgage crisis was a multinational financial crisis that occurred between 2007 and 2010 that contributed to the 2007–2008 global financial crisis. The crisis led to a severe economic recession, with millions losing their jobs and many businesses going bankrupt.
The Home Affordable Modification Program (HAMP) is a government program introduced in 2009 to respond to the subprime mortgage crisis.HAMP [10] is part of the Making Home Affordable program (MHA), [11] established in concert with the Hardest Hit Fund program (HHF) [12] under the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP), a part of the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008. [13]
Rules for the Obama mortgage rescue plan were released today. The plan focuses on two distinct groups of borrowers. The first group is made up of borrowers who are delinquent and who want to ...
WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama is aiming mortgage relief at members of the military as well as homeowners with government-insured loans, the administration's latest efforts to address a ...
The Obama administration has proposed a comprehensive revamp of the nation's housing finance business to reduce the nation's dependence on struggling government-backed enterprises Fannie Mae and ...
In order for the deal to go through J.P. Morgan Chase required [24] the Fed to issue a nonrecourse loan of $29 billion to Bear Stearns. [25] [4] This means that the loan is collateralized by mortgage debt [26] and that the government can't go after J.P. Morgan Chase's assets if the mortgage debt collateral becomes insufficient to repay the loan ...
The United States Housing and Economic Recovery Act of 2008 (commonly referred to as HERA) was designed primarily to address the subprime mortgage crisis.It authorized the Federal Housing Administration to guarantee up to $300 billion in new 30-year fixed rate mortgages for subprime borrowers if lenders wrote down principal loan balances to 90 percent of current appraisal value.