Foreclosure Help
HOPE NOW is an alliance between HUD approved counseling agents, servicers, investors and other mortgage market participants that provides free foreclosure prevention assistance.
The Department of the Treasury and the Department of Housing and Urban Development encouraged leaders in the lending industry, investors and non-profits to form this alliance.
Alliance Action Plan
* The alliance will conduct a new, national direct mail campaign to contact at-risk borrowers, encouraging them to either call their lender or a credit counselor.
* This alliance has agreed to adopt a standard process model that will strengthen and speed work flow, productivity, and communications between servicers and counselors.
* The alliance will work to expand the capacity of an existing national network to receive, assess, counsel, refer, and connect borrowers to servicers.
* The American Securitization Forum, which represents servicers, investors, and other secondary market participants, has announced that counseling fees can be reimbursed from securitization transactions in appropriate circumstances.
* The alliance will develop common communications guidelines that will be used to respond to at-risk borrowers in order to offer them the best possible solutions, customized for each borrower.
* The servicers have agreed to work toward cross-industry technology solutions to more effectively connect servicers and counselors together in order to better serve the homeowner.
* The alliance will develop a common set of metrics to measure the initiative's progress.
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