Help for Homeowners Facing Foreclosure

November 20, 2008

Everyone seems to agree that flooding the market with empty, foreclosed homes does not help neighborhoods maintain stability – either as a way of living, or regarding the value of homes. Empty homes do nothing for a neighborhood.

Recently some organizations are taking tentative steps to allow homeowners who are defaulting on their mortgage to remain in their homes –at least for the time being.

Fannie and Freddie Mac have announced that they are freezing foreclosure sales until after the new year while they review strategies and the future of their organizations. J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. and Citigroup Inc. recently announced foreclosure-prevention programs that aim to reduce interest rates, extend repayment schedules and, in the case of Citigroup, reduce loan amounts, to help borrowers keep their homes. But the programs have focused primarily on loans wholly owned by those companies because they feel they have more authority to rework those mortgages.

HSBC is also making more options available to more people. For example, it is contacting customers before their adjustable-rate loans reset to higher rates and freezing the current rate or allowing the borrower to pay a rate below what the new rate would be. The bank also is lowering fixed rates for selected borrowers. All this in an effort to stave of foreclosures.

One way of stabilizing markets where supply exceeds demand is to regulate supply. That way the people who can buy homes can buy from sellers who can’t afford to stay in their current home. But, amazingly enough, new home construction is still going on – even in saturated markets. Merrill Lynch economist David Rosenberg suggests, only half-jokingly, that the Treasury should impose a moratorium on home building. "It sounds like lunacy, but we have to destroy the housing capital stock to help put a floor under the market," he said.

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Local Information for Green Valley, AZ

Latitude: 31.855617 -- Longitude: -111.000077

Other Area Cities: Green Valley Sahuarita

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Green Valley is located at 31°51'20?N, 111°0'0?W (31.855617, -111.000077)GR1. According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of 68.0 km² (26.3 mi²). 68.0 km² (26.2 mi²) of it is land and 0.1 km² (0.04 mi²) of it (0.08%) is water. Green Valley is twenty miles south of Tucson and 40 miles north of Nogales, Sonora, Mexico. Surrounded by copper mines, and near the hiking and birding areas of the Santa Rita Mountains, Green Valley is now an unincorporated retirement community. In 2005 Green Valley was the host of the SAE mini Baja100 competition. Mini Baja are custom VTT made by students, in this case there were about 60 teams from various universities, including some from Canada. ETS- Ecole de technologie Superieure, from Montreal, Canada, won the competition. -- Source: Wikipedia.com

Arizona 2000 Census Population Profile Map

	Green Valley	Arizona	United States
Population	17,283	5,130,632	281,421,906
Median age	72.2	34.2	35.3
Median age for Male	72.6	32.9	34
Median age for Female	71.8	35.5	36.5
Households	9,995	1,901,327	105,480,101
Household population	17,075	5,020,782	273,643,273
Average household size	1.71	2.64	2.59
Families	6,294	1,287,367	71,787,347
Average family size	2.07	3.18	3.14
Housing units	13,263	2,189,189	115,904,641
Occupied units	9,995	1,901,327	105,480,101
Vacant units	3,268	287,862	10,424,540

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