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People, who lose their home due to foreclosure, suffer financial and emotional crash that takes years to overcome. These distressed home owners need some help in one way or the other.

In America, the new state law aims to help these distressed homeowners. The new law requires lenders to contact borrowers to look at options to avoid foreclosure. The new law also requires that the tenants of foreclosed properties have 60 days rather than 30 days before eviction, once a notice of sale has been posted on their property. The state lawmakers can do only so much to alleviate the crisis. Art Pulaski, executive secretary-treasurer of the California Labor Federation, said "Working people are the ones suffering from these subprime loans and this new law gives people a handhold to grab in trying to renegotiate mortgages".

In Washington, mortgage aid plan is a rescue package that would help distressed homeowners to avoid foreclosures. This is a new way to fight foreclosure. The mortgage aid plan would let the Federal Housing Administration to sponsor new and cheaper home loans for distressed borrowers who otherwise would be considered too financially risky to qualify for government-insured, fixed-rate loans.

New housing legislation is also there to help distressed homeowners. The housing legislation would include a refinancing plan designed to assist homeowners at risk for foreclosure. Press reports say "new housing legislation is the most sweeping government overhaul of mortgage financing since the New Deal."

Some touring foreclosure prevention clinics arrange workshops where area homeowners who are struggling to meet mortgage payments can meet with lenders and perhaps refinance on the spot. In such workshops, housing counselors also will be on hand to help homeowners better understand their options. Recently, the 'Free Hope Now Home Preservation Workshop' was scheduled at the Hilton Milwaukee River Hotel in Washington. The workshop took an average of 30 minutes and was free and open to the public.

The national foreclosure clinic tour is sponsored by Neighbor Works America, Wisconsin Housing and Economic Development Authority, Housing Resources Inc., HBC Services, the Metropolitan Milwaukee Fair Housing Council and the Hope Now Alliance.

'Project Lifeline' is a program which provides real help for distressed home owners. This program stops foreclosure proceedings of borrowers for more than 90 days, during which services will determine if there is any way to avoid it. This plan is applicable for all types of loans. Distressed home owner can request help from one of the six companies launching this program. The major companies are Bank of America, JPMorgan Chase; Co., Citigroup, Countrywide Financial, Washington Mutual and Wells Fargo. If you feel yourself and your home sinking, you can contact 'Project Lifeline' through phone or through online.

WASHINGTON faces record-high foreclosure rates. Its Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson said "Many of today's unusually high number of foreclosures are not preventable", in a mortgage-lending forum meeting. Bush administration has been focused on reducing the number of preventable foreclosures. The administration has been working with the Hope Now alliance to encourage lenders to work out loan modifications or refinancing for people who can afford the new terms and can keep making payments.

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