The Wall Street Journal reports that the President will announce a “short refinance” program on Tuesday. Under this program:

• banks and other creditors that write down mortgages to less than the value of the property can essentially hand off the reduced loan to the government. The process involves refinancing borrowers into loans backed by the Federal Housing Administration.
• Officials say between 500,000 and 1.5 million so-called underwater loans could be modified through the program, the first initiative to target homeowners who are current on their mortgage payments but are at risk of default because they have no equity in their homes.

Click here to read the entire WSJ article

Also see our earlier post “FHA to Refinance Underwater Homeowners”.

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