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Original Articles

The Impacts of Community-based Foreclosure Prevention Programs

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Pages 461-483
Received 01 Jan 2007
Accepted 01 Jan 2008
Published online: 11 Aug 2008
 

This paper examines the impact of community-based foreclosure prevention interventions using two proxy measures: time to resolution and rate of recidivism. These issues are examined with data from over 4200 borrowers who received intense case-management, post-purchase counseling and/or assistance loans through the Mortgage Foreclosure Prevention Program in Minnesota. Overall, the findings suggest that these interventions have a positive impact. With regard to time to resolution, the time to outcome for borrowers served by the program was on average 10.5 months (315 days). With regard to the rate of recidivism, about one-quarter of borrowers who avoided foreclosure reported being delinquent again 12 months after program intervention, and about one-third were delinquent again after 36 months. Households that did not receive an assistance loan as part of the intervention had a higher incidence of recidivism over time, about 45 per cent. Both time to resolution and recidivism among program participants compared favorably with those reported elsewhere for the industry.

Notes

1 The number of foreclosures prevented is based on the reported outcomes for MFP clients. Of the 4274 households in the dataset, 1248 reported ‘Current’, 154 reported ‘Loan restructuring/Modification’, 280 reported ‘Forebearance/Repayment Loan’, 5 reported ‘Not foreclosed/back taxes paid’, and 69 reported ‘Not foreclosed/other reason’. Those were the outcomes that constituted foreclosures prevented.

 

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