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Santa Ana, CA -- Created to assist Americans who did not benefit from the "unprecedented boom in homeownership and home values in recent years," the First American Homeownership Foundation said this year it will focus on the needs of homeowners who are about to face payment increases in their adjustable-rate mortgage loans.
A detailed FAHF foreclosure prevention assistance plan will be unveiled in May.
Going forward, FAHF will help the real estate industry "address an anticipated foreclosure crisis stemming from adjustable-rate mortgage resets that will dramatically increase the monthly payments of the tens of thousands of lower-income homeowners in the next 18 months."
FAHF's stated goal is to help lower-income families for whom the ARM changes are expected to be particularly challenging for in 2007 and 2008. The current effort follows its 2006 campaign dedicated to assisting minority, new immigrant and lower-income families achieve homeownership.
FAHF invests in projects related to real estate financial literacy, homebuyer education, affordable housing creation and neighborhood revitalization through national grants to nonprofits and partnerships with various community-focused organizations including Los Angeles-based Operation HOPE Inc., Habitat for Humanity and Neighborhood ...
Source: HighBeam Research, Philanthropic Entity Will Assist ARM Holders In Distress.(First...