Posts Tagged ‘mortgages’
Details emerge about mortgages chosen for Richmond’s eminent domain scheme
Richmond’s unprecedented plan to help homeowners refinance their mortgages has sparked a national debate about the use of eminent domain, but until now officials haven’t shed much light on how they selected the list of 624 mortgages.
Read MoreBacked by new law, homeowners in Richmond, Oakland, fight to protect homes from foreclosure
When Oakland resident Debi Mason set out to prevent mortgage associates from the Bank of America from foreclosing on her sister Patricia’s Maxwell Park home in 2007, she had only a few friends, neighbors and advocacy groups to help fend off the foreclosure. But last week, Mason, along with thousands of homeowners in Bay Area…
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