Home Foreclosures Hit High In 2009

Trial loan modifications, state legislation extending the foreclosure process and a clog in the foreclosure pipeline couldn’t keep the foreclosure filings from hitting 349,519 in December, up 14% from November and 15% from a year earlier, when a similar spike occurred.

A massive supply of delinquent loans continues to loom over the housing market, and many of those delinquencies will end up in the foreclosure process in 2010. The year total was 2.8 million foreclosure filings SOURCE

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24% of the nation’s voters Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as President. Thirty-nine percent (39%) Strongly Disapprove. SOURCE

Americans losing their homes and all the democrats and Obama can think about is bring about higher cost health care for the American families! Include job lost and the working man is hurting, when will the democratic control congress start working for the citizens instead of causing prices to skyrocket and raising our taxes? Obama has fail the American people his first year! I’m sure the 2.8 million that’s losing their home know that Obama was the wrong man for president!

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Lost jobs forcing more out of homes Across America

The nation’s foreclosure crisis once largely confined to only a few corners of the country is spreading to new areas as the economy teeters. The foreclosure rates in 40 of the nation’s counties that have the most households have already doubled from last year, a USA TODAY analysis of data from the listing firm RealtyTrac shows.
Obama in March said his administration would spend up to $75 billion to help borrowers struggling with expensive mortgages or debts that exceed the value of their homes.

The administration concedes that will do little for those at risk of losing their homes because of the recession. “When people don’t have any income,” Sims says, “then it becomes really, really tough.” Read More

May I ask, why spend $75 billion if Obama knew it would not help?