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- Offering foreclosure protection - Jonathan D. Epstein/The Buffalo News
A new network of eight nonprofit partner organizations is working with state banking regulators to offer foreclosure prevention, housing counseling and legal services to troubled home borrowers throughout the eight-county Western New York region.
The Foreclosure Prevention Network of Western New York has teamed up with the state Banking Department to provide combined services for struggling consumers in one location to fight the area’s foreclosure tide.
The partnership began last month with HomeFront and West Side Neighborhood Housing Services working with the state, but it has since been expanded. The network now includes eight housing agencies certified by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development to provide counseling for homeowners.
Besides the original two, the alliance includes Belmont Housing Resources of WNY, Buffalo Urban League, Neighborhood Housing Services of South Buffalo, NeighborWorks Home Resources of Olean, Chautauqua Home Rehabilitation and Improvement Corp., and Chautauqua Opportunities. ...
The network initially began last year as a group of nonprofits, including the Western New York Law Center, serving only Erie County homeowners through a state grant awarded to WNY AmeriCorps.
Related:
- Homes keep falling into foreclosure as programs fail to help - Tony Pugh/McClatchy Newspapers
More than three years into the housing crisis that helped trigger a worldwide recession, the torrid pace of home foreclosures continues to tear at the core of the American dream.
- Many don't qualify for Obama's foreclosure prevention - Tami Luhby/CNNMoney
- Anti-Foreclosure Program Still Losing Homeowners - Jessica Holzer/Wall Street Journal
- Helping homeowners – or the banks? - Dean Baker/The Guardian
-- George Pyle/The Buffalo News
