{"id":1614,"date":"2015-05-28T15:08:48","date_gmt":"2015-05-28T15:08:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.orangesand.com\/?p=1614"},"modified":"2015-05-28T15:08:48","modified_gmt":"2015-05-28T15:08:48","slug":"fhfa-extending-foreclosure-prevention-programs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/2015\/05\/28\/fhfa-extending-foreclosure-prevention-programs\/","title":{"rendered":"FHFA EXTENDING FORECLOSURE PREVENTION PROGRAMS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) announced Friday that is extending the Home Affordable Mortgage Program (HAMP) and the Home Affordable Refinance Program (HARP) through the end of 2016.\u00a0 HARP allows borrowers with loans backed by Fannie Mae &amp; Freddie Mac to refinance at lower interest rates even when the homes have lost value.\u00a0 HAMP provides incentives for lenders to alter mortgage terms to make them more affordable.\u00a0 FHFA Director Mel Watt said the programs were never meant to be permanent &amp; this was the last HAMP extension and probably same for HARP.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) announced Friday that is extending the Home Affordable Mortgage Program (HAMP) and the Home Affordable Refinance Program (HARP) through the end of 2016.\u00a0 HARP allows borrowers with loans backed by Fannie Mae &amp; Freddie Mac to refinance at lower interest rates even when the homes have lost value.\u00a0 HAMP [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1614"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1614"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1614\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1615,"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1614\/revisions\/1615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}