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Released: March 02, 2010

Refinancing program extended for troubled homeowners

Source: Renae Merle, Washington Post (Free Registration)

The Obama administration announced Monday that borrowers with little or no equity in their homes will have another year to take advantage of a refinancing program that so far has made little progress.

The Home Affordable Refinance Program was set to expire in June, but so far it has reached fewer than 200,000 of the up to 5 million borrowers federal regulators hoped it would help.

Market conditions have not changed significantly since the program was launched last year, Edward DeMarco, acting director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, said in a statement. So to give lenders more time to implement the plan and to “support and promote market stability,” the initiative will be extended to June 2011, he said.

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