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A group of students in the southern state of Florida is taking its studies to the streets.
The law students from Florida A&M University are going door-to-door in low-income neighborhoods to educate residents about property foreclosures and loan refinancing scams. The program is backed by a national nonprofit organization created by Congress to help revitalize communities.
House calls
As they walk the streets of Pine Hills, a suburb of Orlando, the students don’t have to go far to find victims of the collapse of the US housing market.
People like Louvon and Thomas Roberson, who are struggling to stay in their home. They paid a company to help them get a mortgage loan modification but their loan was not modified and, they say, the money they paid to the company was not returned.
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