Ohio leaders press White House for mortgage help

[ChromeFoundry]

Posted: 02/27/2010

COLUMBUS, Ohio - Ohio leaders say the state was unfairly omitted from a new $1.5 billion federal program to fight mortgage foreclosures.

President Barack Obama says the money is going to housing agencies in the five hardest-hit states of Arizona, California, Florida, Michigan and Nevada.

Ohio Attorney General Richard Cordray on Friday sent a letter to U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner urging the administration to add Ohio. A record 89,053 foreclosures were filed in Ohio in 2009.

Phyllis Caldwell, who heads the Treasury Department Homeownership Preservation Office, says the newly announced program is part of a broader housing stabilization effort. She says Ohio has received more than $145 million in neighborhood stabilization grants.


http://www.newsnet5.com/dpp/money/ohio-leaders-press-white-house-for-mortgage-help

[OhioChick]

1. A letter to Geithner is useless.

Kucinich isn't happy about Ohio being left out, either.

Kucinich vows a fight over Ohio's exclusion from federal mortgage assistance program

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=389&topic_id=7762712

[proudohioan]

2. Yes, a letter to the man that helped "burn down the house"..

would certainly be useless.

I read this one about Dennis.

As usual?

YOU GO, DENNIS!!!

There's a man that stands by his convictions and principals!

[OhioChick]

3. I agree....

Wish there were more out there like Dennis.

:hi: