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Massachusetts has some new tools to fight the foreclosure crisis. Twenty million, to be exact.
The state has just activated a 20 million dollar loan fund for community groups to buy foreclosed homes before they become neighborhood wrecking eyesores and worse.
Foreclosures are devastating both for individual homeowners and their families and also to communities.
The 20 million dollar fund will provide loans of 250 thousand to a million dollars to community groups.
That’s expected to buy 250 to 500 foreclosed homes and apartments, with the Boston, Brockton, Chelsea, Lawrence, New Bedford, Springfield, and Worcester areas.
Notably, it doesn’t use any state money. 17 million comes from private lenders in the Massachusetts housing investment corporation, 2 million from the Boston foundation, and 1 million from the Hyams foundation in Chelsea.

IT’S A WONDERFUL example of people coming together to try to solve a problem
The fund is being launched as Massachusetts is facing what many housing […]

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Shakeups at Washington Mutual and Wachovia. Roundtable Discussion with Andrew Seibert of Nextier Wealth Management and Forbes CEO Steve Forbes.
Washington Mutual shares are down after Kerry Killinger stepped down as chairman. Shares of Wachovia are falling to below is the value in almost 13 years after Ken Thompson was ousted.
Chairman Lanty Smith has been appointed interim CEO. Is this new management what these companies need to get back on track? Are there more troubles for financials?

I think their values will go lower until they get a feel for who will take over. There are probably more Writedowns to come.
These banks have not gone beyond the problem of the Subprime Mortgage Industry and there is possibly another shoe to fall. If the Credit Deterioration continues, there will be many more problems.
 
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Wachovia has big news today. Shares of falling in the premarket after the company ousted CEO Ken Thompson.

Wachovia stated he is stepping down at the request of the board, saying no single precipitating event calls because the board to reach the decision, but a series of previously disclosed disappointments and setbacks cumulatively have negatively impacted the company and performance. Perhaps you can call it an understatement.
Shares down 57% in the past 12 months.
 
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Washington Mutual, hard-hit by the mortgage and credit crises, will replace Chief Executive Kerry Killinger as chairman of the board.

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The average time that a home sits on the market when it is for sale is now 11 months.
So what does that mean to you and me? It means nothing. Despite what is said by the professionals, we are still facing the largest portfolio of mortgage resets from right now in May 2008 to September 2008 (Mortgage reset chart).
So what does that mean then? Now we are on to something. Until the underlining mortgage issues are resolved, meaning the homeowners with mortgage resets that become unaffordable, of which only 30% of the affected homeowners are being helped, expect further home depreciation.
CNN.com has stated within the last few weeks that even with all the programs developed by the government, only about 30% of the homeowners can be helped. The reason is obvious. Why does any, for profit banking institution, want to take on the problems of another bank?
And the math […]

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As we continue to analyze and manage our product set, Chase has made the decision to discontinue offering our Subprime and Home Equity products through our Wholesale channel.
New Wholesale Subprime and Home Equity registrations will not be accepted after Friday, May 16, 2008.
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As we continue to analyze and manage our product set, Chase has made the decision to discontinue offering our Subprime and Home Equity products through our Wholesale channel.
New Wholesale Subprime and Home Equity registrations will not be accepted after Friday, May 16, 2008.
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New foreclosure filings rose 4% in April and were nearly 65% higher than the level recorded a year earlier, according to RealtyTrac.
The company’s U.S. Foreclosure Market Report indicates that foreclosure filings, default notices, auction sale notices, and bank repossessions were reported on 243,353 properties in April.
"The total number of U.S. properties with foreclosure activity in April was the highest monthly total we’ve seen since we began issuing the report in January 2005," said James J. Saccacio, RealtyTrac’s chief executive officer. "Although only about 2% of households nationwide are in foreclosure, these properties contribute to already-bloated inventories of homes for sale and put downward pressure on home values."
The company noted California, Florida, and Ohio recorded the highest foreclosure rates in April.
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It is not just Bank of America that is reeling from subprime problems, the largest banks in the world have posted $290 billion of credit losses, since the beginning of 2007.

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Bank of America Net Drops 77%

Bank Of America, Credit Deterioration, Lenders With Problems 2007, Mortgage Defaults, Mortgage Delinquencies, Mortgage Implosion, mortgage news, Mortgage Video, Writedowns

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