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Voluntary modifications by mortgage lenders are “too little, too late,” said Nicolas Retsinas, director of Harvard University’s Joint Center for Housing Studies in Cambridge, Massachusetts. As mounting job losses cause foreclosure rates to rise, “we clearly need a more activist government intervention,” he said.
Hope Now projects 950,000 loan modifications for 2008, including 208,000 for the month of November. Including repayment plans and other assistance, the group estimates that about 2.2 million foreclosures will have been prevented this year, bringing to 3 million the total averted since the program began in 2007.
Prime Borrowers
New data show that more high-quality borrowers are facing foreclosure as the economy worsens, not just the borrowers with poor credit ratings who were the first affected by the housing crisis.
