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Industry Reps, Analysts Lament CA ‘Grand Theft Mortgage’ Plan

July 9, 2012
Three jurisdictions in California are raising a lot of industry hackles over a plan that could lead to the use of eminent domain to seize currently performing underwater mortgages and force a restructuring of their terms. It’s a plan “more like Grand Theft Mortgage than a silver bullet” for the region’s housing woes, according to former Fannie Mae executive Edward Pinto. At issue is a resolution adopted last week by California’s San Bernardino county and the cities of Ontario and Fontana in which the jurisdictions entered into a joint powers agreement. Under the resolution...
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