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 New Albany, IN

Latitude: 38.301935 -- Longitude: -85.821442

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New Albany is a city in Floyd County, Indiana, situated along the Ohio River opposite Louisville, Ky. In 1900, 20,628 people lived in New Albany; in 1910, 20,629; in 1920, 22,992; and in 1940, 25,414. The population was 37,603 at the 2000 census. The city is the county seat of Floyd CountyGR6. It is bounded by I-265 to the north and the Ohio River to the south, and is considered part of the Louisville, Kentucky metropolitan area. The mayor of New Albany is James E. Garner, Sr., a Democrat, whose current term is set to expire on January 1, 2008. New Albany was founded in July 1813 by three brothers from New York. Joel, Abner, and Nathaniel Scribner arrived at the Falls of the Ohio and named after Albany, the capital of New York state. The Scribner House still stands. The site was originally part of George Rogers Clark's grant from the Virginia legislature. In 1819, three years after Indiana was admitted as a state, New Albany became the seat of government for Floyd County. -- Source: Wikipedia.com

Indiana 2000 Census Population Profile Map

	New Albany	Indiana	United States
Population	37,603	6,080,485	281,421,906
Median age	36.6	35.2	35.3
Median age for Male	34.8	33.9	34
Median age for Female	38.3	36.5	36.5
Households	15,959	2,336,306	105,480,101
Household population	36,923	5,902,331	273,643,273
Average household size	2.31	2.53	2.59
Families	10,059	1,602,501	71,787,347
Average family size	2.88	3.05	3.14
Housing units	17,098	2,532,319	115,904,641
Occupied units	15,959	2,336,306	105,480,101
Vacant units	1,139	196,013	10,424,540

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