In the foreclosure-battered inland stretches of California, local government officials desperate for change are weighing a controversial but inventive way to fix troubled mortgages: Condemn them.
Officials from San Bernardino County
and two of its cities have formed a local agency to consider the plan.
But investors who stand to lose money on their mortgage investments have
been quick to register their displeasure.
Discussion
of the idea is taking place in one of the epicenters of the housing
crisis, a working-class region east of Los Angeles where housing prices
have plummeted. Last week brought another sharp reminder of the crisis
when the 210,000-strong city of San Bernardino, struggling after shrunken home prices walloped local tax revenues, announced it would seek bankruptcy protection.
The idea was broached by a group of West Coast financiers who suggest using the power of eminent domain, which lets the government seize private property for public use. In this case,they would condemn troubled mortgages so they could seize them from the investors who own them. Then the mortgages would be rewritten so the borrowers would have significantly lower monthly payments.
And another step closer to the Debt will be written off globally just as I stated 2 years ago.
The idea was broached by a group of West Coast financiers who suggest using the power of eminent domain, which lets the government seize private property for public use. In this case,they would condemn troubled mortgages so they could seize them from the investors who own them. Then the mortgages would be rewritten so the borrowers would have significantly lower monthly payments.
And another step closer to the Debt will be written off globally just as I stated 2 years ago.
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