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OBAMA
ADMINISTRATION RELEASES NEW
DATA
ON MAKING HOME AFFORDABLE PROGRAM,
ACHIEVES KEY MILESTONE WEEKS
AHEAD OF SCHEDULE
WASHINGTON – Today,
almost one month ahead of a
November 1 benchmark set earlier
this year, the U.S. Department
of the Treasury and U.S. Department
of Housing and Urban Development
(HUD) announced a new milestone
of more than 500,000 trial
loan modifications in progress
under the Making Home Affordable
program.
The goal of 500,000 trial loan modifications by November 1 initially set in July pushed servicers to ramp up program implementation and sustain a faster pace of modifications; trial modifications are now being issued at a faster rate than new homeowners are becoming eligible. Still, the Administration believes that more can and should be done to assist struggling homeowners and to stabilize the housing market. As part of a continued effort to improve program performance, senior Treasury and HUD officials held the next in a series of meetings with servicers this afternoon, with discussion focused on improving servicer efficiency and responsiveness to borrowers during the modification process.
Additionally, Treasury and HUD released today the next Monthly MHA Program Report, which tracks servicer performance through the month of September – ending September 30, 2009. That report can be found here: http://www.treas.gov/press/releases/docs/MHA%20Public%20100809%20Final.pdf.
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