Half a decade since the housing bust, many foreclosures are showing their age. A quarter of cases now in Hillsborough court are at least 3 years old.

So who's keeping Florida's more than 350,000 pending foreclosures in court? Judges largely blame the banks. State court data show banks regularly delay cases so long that judges drop them for lack of

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The Home Affordable Modification Program, or HAMP, was to expire at the end of this year.

When it

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In 2008, the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act created the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP), which provided $700 billion to the Treasury to address the subprime mortgage crisis and to “maximize assistance for homeowners.” As we know, the majority of that money went to the banks that created the mortgage crisis with high-risk products, and...

When Montana received nearly $6 million from a $25 billion national settlement with the nation’s five largest banks – a result of their shady mortgage practices – the state tucked away its share of the funding to help homeowners address the threat of foreclosure.

Fifteen months later, the Office of Consumer Protection in the Montana Attorney

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