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- Laying a stable foundation 2/25/2010
- Barely a year after the city got word it was getting $55.2 million in first-round federal Neighborhood Stabilization Program (NSP) funding, the City of Chicago and its non-profit program manager, Mercy Portfolio Services (MPS), have created a nimble system for buying and recycling hundreds of foreclosed homes and apartment buildings.
- Foreclosure fight goes neighbor-to-neighbor 11/26/2009
- SWOP, NHS and Greater Southwest are partnering with Bank of America on a new, one-on-one strategy to reach and assist at-risk homeowners.
- Chicago Lawn Heroes: Katie Van Tiem,
The Pastors of the “Keep our Homes” campaign 11/16/2009 - The community heroes saluted by the New Communities Program lead agencies and their partners are the ones doing the heavy lifting, often with little acknowledgement or reward.
- Fool me once ... 10/16/2009
- Good information is the best defense against debt relief scams.
- Planning project supports 63rd Street vision 7/10/2009
- Under the leadership of 63rd St. business owners and community residents, the 63rd St. Growth Commission is in the midst of a planning and visioning effort for the business district.
- Fighting foreclosure on two fronts 7/10/2009
- A woman's story offers hope and a cautionary tale to borrowers in trouble and stands as testament to the work of housing counselors at NCP lead agency Greater Southwest Development Corp.
- People Power makes partners of SWOP, BofA 7/10/2009
- “Bank of America!” 200 demonstrators in Chicago Lawn repeatedly inveighed. “Keep our families in their homes!” They helped to spur negotiation of a new partnership between the community, led by Southwest Organizing Project, and the nation’s largest commercial bank.
- Quinn and Madigan vow foreclosure fight 4/7/2009
- Mortgage-loan sharks take notice: the Southwest Side will use every weapon it has – including growing political clout – to stop you from further destabilizing neighborhoods in your rapacious hunt for quick profits.
- Stimulate this! NCP provides platform for feds 3/17/2009
- Chicago’s working-class neighborhoods are hard hit by the severe economic recession, but LISC’s NCP neighborhoods are positioning themselves to take full advantage of federal recovery programs headed our way.
- NCPers: Obama mortgage plan on target 2/25/2009
- Credit experts active in NCP’s Foreclosure Response Fund say they’re optimistic President Barack Obama’s plan for modifying bad mortgages will begin to cure Chicago’s alarming epidemic of home foreclosures.
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