Barack Obama, Housing Crisis | featured news

President Obama will use a campaign stop for Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid  to announce a new initiative to help support homeowners in states hit hardest by the housing crisis.

After a slow start, the Obama administration's mortgage relief program has reached one in five eligible homeowners, a government report says.

The Obama administration’s effort to help homeowners avoid foreclosure may not achieve its goal of helping 3 million to 4 million borrowers, a government watchdog group says.

U.S. officials are weighing a plan to let borrowers who have fallen behind on mortgage payments avoid eviction by renting their home instead, sources familiar with the administration's thinking said on Tuesday.

Housing advocates who work with homeowners say that while President Obama’s loan modification program could help thousands of New Yorkers, it has been slow to get off the ground.

The Obama administration is expected to expand its mortgage aid program on Thursday, announcing new measures that would help ...

The Obama administration's loan modification program is finally underway.

The Obama administration today released details of $75 billion home loan modification and refinancing programs. Borrowers can start contacting loan servicers.

While some U.S. governors were embracing the housing plan President Barack Obama announced last week, as a way to bolster their own assistance efforts, others worried that the plan is unfair.

Some believe the $75-billion proposal could provide the help they need to stay in their homes. Others -- even though they 'feel for people who are having trouble' -- say it's a taxpayer-funded bailout.