New Fed Help for jobless homeowners - $3 billion on roll

The Fed has come up with a new program to help the Americans. Whether it will be successful or not can only be determined over time. The Obama administration has declared an additional $3 billion of relief funds for those homeowners who are unemployed. These funds will be helping the homeowners to avoid foreclosures and save their homes.

$1 billion will be used for loaning the unemployed homeowners who are at the verge of facing foreclosure. Housing and non-profit agencies will be distributing these loans. With a 0% interest, the unemployed homeowners will be loaned for an amount of $50,000 each, which will be applicable for two years. This program is known as Emergency Homeowner Loan Program.

The remaining 2 billion dollars will be supporting the unemployed homeowners in the states that are hit badly by unemployment. In a previous program for these hard hit states, the government released $2.1 billion. The states were asked by the administration to put forward a proposal on how they will be using the money. This 2 billion dollar addition will be expanding this program to 17 states in total along with the capital state of the country, where the rate of unemployment went skyrocketing and exceeded the national average.

What is there in store for the Americans will be disclosed only after the programs are implemented and only after a significant time has crossed. Until them, it seems that the foreclosure problem will not end so easily and the homeowners will continue to suffer. The main reason for this is the negative equity accruing on their properties, because of the depreciation of the market values of the properties that they currently own and also because of the fact that the US economy is hit badly by the problem of unemployment, which is the major cause of rising foreclosures in the country. However, the prospective homebuyers will be enjoying a reduced pricing for the preoccupied homes which the lenders are trying to dispose off.

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