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...Hope for Homeowners has heightened awareness of the fact that it can be incredibly difficult to shape the behavior of private companies and create an effective fix for such a complicated problem. In December, the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) and the Office of Thrift Supervision (OTS) issued a report showing that at national banks and federally regulated thrifts, nearly 37% of homeowners were 60 or more days behind on their payments six months after receiving a modification. That re-default problem has received much attention as the national conversation has turned toward the idea of taxpayers standing behind modifications...
...prickly problem, though - as Dugan has pointed out - is that the available data from the OCC and OTS are rife with flaws. For instance, nowhere do servicers report what, exactly, they're doing when they modify a loan. And that, as it turns out, is an incredibly important detail since other data show that in many cases what they're doing is increasing a struggling borrower's monthly payment. The Maryland Office of Financial Regulation, which collects data on some 380,000 loans from 65 servicers, found that of modifications completed last August and September, 42% kept the monthly payment...
...changes to mortgages do have the best shot of keeping borrowers in their homes in the long run. The most quoted research on the topic, from the investment bank Credit Suisse, shows - unsurprisingly - that when modifications involve lower monthly payments, borrowers have much more of a fighting chance. One report, looking at modifications made to a pool of sub-prime loans, found that 44% of loans with increased monthly payments were more than 60 days delinquent within eight months. After that same period, only 15% of loans that had received an interest-rate reduction and 23% in which the principal...
Office of the Special Inspector General for the Troubled Asset Relief Program "Initial Report to Congress" SIGTARP: Neil M. Barofsky 189 pages February...
...Arts in 2007 to examine the role that arts plays at Harvard, the Freshman Seminar Program was already responding to a perceived change in the student body: their increased interest in artistic endeavors.The Task Force, comprised of faculty, students, and professional artists associated with the Harvard community, released a report last December emphasizing the value of the arts in research institutions such as Harvard. According to Faust, the findings called for an end to the “‘curricular banishment of the arts,” and has generated much anticipation for a greater presence...