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The Foreclosure Crisis Committee platform

What homeowners need: HEMAP and FHA

Foreclosures are now at record rates nationally and locally. The number of homes lost to foreclosure at sheriff's sale doubled from 2001 until 2004.

It is time something is done to protect the homes of citizens caught in the recession or with other problems beyond their control.

PUP Homeowners Protested Philadelphia's Largest Sheriffs Sale Ever

We called for:

1. More approvals for the Pennsylvania Homeowners Emergency Mortgage Assistance Program (HEMAP).
2. Reduced attorney's fees for foreclosure actions.
3. Help from HUD for homeowners with FHA mortgages.
4. A temporary moratorium on Sheriff Sale's until action has been taken to reduce foreclosures. Such a moratorium was granted for 15 months during the 1983 recession. We call on Sheriff John Green to hold off on the next sale and join us in approaching the courts for a moratorium as Sheriff Joe Sullivan did in 1983 when 310 properties were scheduled for sale.
5. Legislative protections from predatory loans.

The Foreclosure Crisis Committee has been working to reduce the skyrocketing numbers of mortgage foreclosures. The committee is made up of homeowners threatened with foreclosure.

The committee meets regularly and members join together to protect each others homes. One committee's of the main goals is to the City of Philadelphia to help people who are facing foreclosure get back on their feet and start paying reasonable payments again