Program Changes Crawling Through Government Channels, Frustrating Lawmakers and Industry
July 23, 2009
The FHA’s beleaguered HOPE for Homeowners program has become the poster child for over-engineered government solutions to the festering foreclosure problem and is increasingly causing friction between policymakers and lenders. Designed by Congress and launched by the Bush administration back in October, H4H was supposed to help hundreds of thousands of underwater borrowers refinance to a new...