H.R.5830 - FHA Housing Stabilization and Homeownership Retention Act of 2008

To create a voluntary FHA program that provides mortgage refinancing assistance to allow families to stay in their homes, protect neighborhoods, and help stabilize the housing market. view all titles (4)

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  • Short: FHA Housing Stabilization and Homeownership Retention Act of 2008 as introduced.
  • Short: FHA Housing Stabilization and Homeownership Retention Act of 2008 as reported to house.
  • Official: To create a voluntary FHA program that provides mortgage refinancing assistance to allow families to stay in their homes, protect neighborhoods, and help stabilize the housing market. as introduced.
  • Short: Expand and Preserve Home Ownership Through Counseling Act as reported to house.

07/24/08
How to Stop the Foreclosures?

The House of Representatives has recently passed a bill (HR 5830, introduced by Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass.) that is primarily a workout, ...

Source: Dollars & Sense, MA
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05/20/08
Housing help

Still, critics of the proposal (HR 5830:hr05830: in the House and known in the Senate as the Federal Housing Finance Regulatory Reform Act of 2008) complain ...

Source: Los Angeles Times, CA
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05/11/08
Congressman Ron Klein weekly report

The housing legislation includes the FHA Rescue and Neighborhood Stabilization Acts, (HR 5830 and 5818) which provide mortgage refinancing assistance to ...

Source: Boca Raton News,  USA
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05/07/08
Tubbs Jones Supports Housing Package

... by the House today which includes the Neighborhood Stabilization Act (HR 5818) and the American Housing Rescue and Foreclosure Prevention Act (HR 5830). ...

Source: PR Newswire (press release), NY
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05/07/08
House Approves Controversial Housing Package

Characterizing his proposal — HR 5830, the FHA Housing and Homeowner Retention Act — as a “cooperative approach” to solving the housing mess, ...

Source: Housing Wire
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05/06/08
Bush Issues Veto Threat on FHA Expansion Bill

Frank’s bill, HR 5830, the FHA Housing and Homeowner Retention Act, would allow the government to guarantee up to $300 billion in refinancing activity tied ...

Source: Housing Wire
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05/06/08
THE DAILY WHIPLINE | WEDNESDAY, MAY 7, 2008

... such as bills regarding FHA refinance (HR 5830), FHA modernization (HR 1852), GSE reform (HR 1427), loan modification (HR 5579), community development ...

Source: Trading Markets (press release), CA
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05/06/08
Bush Says He Would Veto House Package Aimed at Easing Mortgage Crisis

But the House has taken a relatively expansive approach to addressing housing market woes, with Frank working for weeks to fine-tune the proposal ( HR 5830 ...

Source: CQPolitics.com, DC
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05/05/08
Frank Warns Lenders, Servicers; Wants Answers on Conforming Jumbos

Characterizing his proposal — HR 5830, the FHA Housing and Homeowner Retention Act — as a “cooperative approach” to solving the housing mess, ...

Source: Housing Wire
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05/04/08
Coming Soon, and Up for Debate This Week: War Spending, Housing ...

... 2007 Saves $0.03 per family http://www.washingtonwatch.com/bills/show/110_SN_2136.html HR 5830 The FHA Housing Stabilization and Homeownership Retention ...

Source: NewsBlaze, CA
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05/04/08
Subtle Ben (Bernanke) Inches Closer to Barney (Frank)

... the next five years under the Frank bill (cost estimate of HR 5830), a small fraction of the estimated 10 million mortgages that are now underwater. ...

Source: Wall Street Journal Blogs, NY
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05/04/08
House to Consider Housing Stimulus Bill This Week

HR 5830, approved by the House Financial Services Committee last week marks the most significant congressional attempt to date to slow the pace of ...

Source: Helicopter Association International, VA
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05/01/08
FHA Short Pay Loans

The bill, HR 5830, the Federal Housing Administration (FHA) Housing and Homeowner Retention Act was passed out of the House Financial Services Committee and ...

Source: MortgageNewsDaily.com, AZ
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04/30/08
House Panel Passes Distressed Mortgage Refi Plan; Frank Threatens ...

The bill — HR 5830, the FHA Housing and Homeowner Retention Act — would expand the Federal Housing Administration’s current mortgage program for a two year ...

Source: Housing Wire
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04/28/08
Bush: So Far, Congress has “Failed” on Housing

... considered by Capitol Hill, with Deputy Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Roy A. Bernardi issuing a letter that detailed opposition to HR 5830, ...

Source: Housing Wire
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04/24/08
Wells Fargo Stepping Back into Non-Prime Wholesale — With FHA

The House Financial Services Committee this week took up formal debate on HR 5830, FHA Housing Stabilization and Homeowner Retention Act, a bill that would ...

Source: Housing Wire
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04/20/08
Housing Rescue Legislation Introduced in the House

The legislation first announced by Chairman Barney Frank in March, will be divided into two measures: HR 5830, the FHA Housing and Homeowner Retention Act, ...

Source: Originator Times
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