“People are desperately out of work and in danger of losing their homes,” said state Sen. Linda Holmes, D-Aurora. “I’d love to say there is an end in sight, but the end is not near.”
“You can never catch up,” she said. “I’ve been trying to work something out with the mortgage company and they are not cooperative at all,” said Riley, of Aurora, who has lived in her first home for seven years.
In Aurora, foreclosure filings increased over 89 percent in the same nine-month span from 2008 to 2009. From January to September of this year, 3,433 homes went to foreclosure in Aurora compared to 1,815 homes last year during that time frame.
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