Hope Now Alliance

Hope Now Alliance
An initiative launched in 2007 to combat the rising tide of foreclosures created by the subprime mortgage market meltdown. The Alliance is comprised of members from the U.S. government, the secondary mortgage market, lenders, mortgage backed securities (MBS) investors and homeownership counseling organizations. The group's efforts to reverse the foreclosure trend focused on contacting homeowners for loan modifications and workouts. Workouts can result in either a modified repayment plan (simply bringing the homeowner up to date on their current payments but not changing the underlying terms of their mortgage) or a loan modification (where the terms of the mortgage are modified in order to make the loan serviceable for the homeowner).

Tactics have included a nationally-promoted website with foreclosure prevention information, a 24-hour toll-free telephone number and free phone counseling through the Homeownership Preservation Foundation.

The Hope Now Alliance claims that as of September 2009 it has helped over 1.7 million distressed borrowers, but the actual number of borrowers who have received long-term help (meaning that they are permanently not at risk for foreclosure as a result of their loan workout or modification) is unclear. Critics at the time claimed that the Alliance did not do enough to aide distressed borrowers, that rollout of the group's assistance was uncoordinated leaving homeowners confused and still at risk for foreclosure and that its member firms was slow to move in part because as lenders and investors they stood to lose money on their investment if borrowers received loan modifications that lowered the amount of money owed on their loan.


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