Tuesday, March 13, 2007

Helping Families Prepare for the Rise in Subprime Mortgage Foreclosures

The spike in foreclosures is delivering substantial losses to some home mortgage lenders, shaking investor confidence in the subprime loan market and possibly even prime home loan industry. A slumping housing market and the threat of higher mortgage payments are also raising fears that more homeowners will find themselves unable to service their mortgages or sell their homes, threatening mortgage lenders with further foreclosures and saddling homeowners with ruined credit ratings that cripple their ability to access loans in the future.

This is an excerpt from an article posted on Center for American Progress' website. You can read the entire article by clicking here.

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