Attention California Homeowners!!!

California Housing Finance Agency Update (08/10/2010)

CalHFA is not taking applications or maintaining waiting lists for the Keep Your Home programs at this time. The Keep Your Home programs are under development and will not be available until November 1, 2010.

If you are currently struggling to make your mortgage payment, are in any stage of mortgage delinquency or are already facing foreclosure, it is important for you to contact your loan servicer or a HUD-certified housing counselor immediately. You can find a list of foreclosure avoidance counselors here.

The U.S. Treasury Department has approved CalHFA's plan to use nearly $700 million in federal funding to help California families struggling to pay their mortgages.

The Keep Your Home programs are focused on assisting low and moderate income families stay in their homes, when possible, and leveraging additional contributions from lenders and mortgage servicers.
Primary objectives for the Keep Your Home Programs include:

^. Preserving homeownership for low and moderate income homeowners in California by reducing the number of delinquencies and preventing avoidable foreclosures
^. Assisting in the stabilization of California communities

Each of the Keep Your Home programs is designed to address one or more aspects of the current housing crisis by doing the following:

^. Helping low and moderate income homeowners retain their homes if they either have suffered a financial hardship such as unemployment, have experienced a change in household circumstance such as death, illness or disability, or are subject to a recent or upcoming increase in their monthly mortgage payment and are at risk of default because of this economic hardship when coupled with a severe decline in their home's value.
^. Creating a simple, effective way to get federal funds to assist low and moderate income homeowners who meet one or all of the objective criteria described above. Speed of delivery will be balanced with fulfillment of the specific program's mission and purpose.
^. Creating programs that have an immediate, direct economic and social impact on low and moderate income homeowners and their neighborhoods.

CalHFA Frequently-Asked Questions (FAQs) (updated July 9, 2010)

(Source: http://www.keepyourhomecalifornia.com/)