New York Times Article:

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Chicago Tribune article:

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The Institute for Foreclosure Legal Assistance, a project of the
Center for Responsible Lending (CRL) and managed by the National
Association of Consumer Advocates (NACA), is accepting applications
for foreclosure legal assistance grants for fiscal year 2009.

Funding is specifically earmarked to hire attorneys and legal support

Helping Low-Income Tenants Avoid Post-Foreclosure Evictions

The Editorial Team of Clearinghouse Review: Journal of Poverty Law and
Policy, published by the Sargent Shriver National Center on Poverty
Law, invites you to attend this free, 75-minute webinar on Thursday,
October 2, 2008, at 11 a.m. Pacific time, noon Mountain time, 1 p.m.

Is this a case where the scammer took title to the property? And his name
doesn't show up on the county property records on other properties?
If that's true, the only other suggestion I have is to check with your
secretary of state to see if he has any companies, llc's, etc., that he does
business as and then check your county property records again. if still

We're considering filing a suit for damages against a foreclosure scam
artist whose actions helped to render our clients homeless. However,
we're somewhat pressed for resources and so it would be easier for us
to take the case if we knew we were going to be bringing down a
defendant who's victimized other vulnerable homeowners.

Prepared by the Citizens Housing and Planning Association, this
helpful summary, dated July 28, 2008, covers major bill provisions
related to affordable housing, counseling, and foreclosure
prevention.

[link]

The CLEARINGHOUSE REVIEW Editorial Team of the Sargent Shriver
National Center on Poverty Law will be hosting a free foreclosure
webinar on Thursday, October 2, 2008, at 11 a.m. Pacific time; 1:00
p.m. Central time; 2:00 p.m. Eastern time. The topic will be
protecting tenants from foreclosure in judicial and nonjudicial

Federal Home Foreclosure Bill Offers Aid to Low-Income Rental Housing,
Too; by Kate Walz, Senior Staff Attorney, Sargent Shriver National
Center on Poverty Law

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On Jul 31, 12:40 pm, Catherine Dorn Schreiber

I uploaded an "Initial Client Interview Checklist" that I wrote for
use in foreclosure rescue scam cases a few years ago. Several legal
services providers here in Washington State use the form, and our
state Dept. of Financial Institutions accepts it as a way of
submitting a complaint (although I wouldn't generally recommend using

Robert Doggett, an attorney with Texas Rio Grande Legal Aid, is the
author of Foreclosure Buzz, a noncommercial blog that provides general
information on the foreclosure crisis facing the United States. For
more information, see [link].

Click on [link]
- or copy & paste it into your browser's address bar if that doesn't
work.

Click on [link]
- or copy & paste it into your browser's address bar if that doesn't
work.

Have you used foreclosure case screening tools at your organization?
If so, have you found them useful? What recomendations do you have for
advocates interested in setting up a screening tool? If you have
sample screening tools that you would like to share with other
advocates, please reply with a link or attachment.

For any of you out there who have taken advantage of the f/c plaintiff
lack-of-standing-to-sue argument, a la the Ohio cases, I'm wondering
what leverage you have gained/what additional outcomes (e.g., better
loan mods) you may have achieved by asserting (and prevailing on the
issue of) lack of standing, if you have. Thanks.

WASHINGTON — Investors drove up U.S. home sales last month, plunking down cash to grab cheap homes at risk of foreclosure.

Reuters - U.S. home building and permits for future construction rebounded strongly last month from February's weather-depressed levels, but a glut of housing on the market will make further gains difficult.

The number of homeowners entering foreclosure dropped sharply regionally and statewide last quarter, according to new figures LaJolla-based researcher DataQuick Information Systems released today. <br/> (BRIAN RAMSAY/bramsay@modbee.com) - Stanislaus County median home sale prices remained steady for September amid confusion over the foreclosure mess that has made national headlines.

Getting a mortgage just keeps getting tougher, and many homebuyers are getting rejected for loans they could easily afford.

Ongoing economic, financial and housing woes continue to hit Americans where they live — or used to.

AP - The nation's homeownership rate remained at its lowest in more than a decade, hampered by a rise in foreclosures and weak demand for housing.