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Foreclosure Prevention and Home Buyer Education Videos
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Columbus Housing Partnership and NeighborWorks America created these 30-minute videos to educate and inform Ohioans on the resources available to help prevent or avert foreclosure. Since January 2007, these videos have run on 15 major-market cable, public and government stations across Ohio , including Time Warner Cable. |
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Click here to view Foreclosure Prevention video |
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Click here to view Home Buyer Education video |
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NOTE: These video files require an internet connection faster than dialup - if you have problems trying to view the files, right click on the link and click "Save Target As" to save the video file onto your computer so you can view it from there. |
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Tour helps foreclosure issue hit home
Officials
visit neighborhoods hurt by problem
Thursday, February 7, 2008 3:31 AM
THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH
By
Barbara Carmen |
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Gene Klingler loves her new
neighborhood. It has people of every color. Artists are
moving in; she's one. Young families are potting flowers
on porches.
But many are giving up and fleeing, and
the houses are sitting vacant, awaiting foreclosure.
"We need help here," Klingler, of ... |
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FORECLOSURE CRISIS
Homeowners
can find help, but must act fast
Saturday, January 26, 2008 3:08 AM
THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH By
Rita
Price |
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She eliminated cable and telephone
service, which explains both the rabbit-ears antenna on
the TV and an encyclopedic knowledge of the South Side's
few remaining phone booths. |
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Mortgage crisis
Bush foreclosure aid
falls short, critics say
Friday, December 7, 2007
THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH
By
Tracy Turner and
Mike Pramik |
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Sheila
Lewis is holding out for a miracle that will let her
keep her home and hopes that President Bush's
foreclosure-prevention program will deliver it. |
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Columbus Housing Partnership's President/CEO, Amy D. Klaben, has been selected as one of 50 members from across the country to join the third class of NeighborWorks America 's Achieving Excellence Program with Harvard University 's John F. Kennedy School of Government. |
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Live Solar Panel
Installation Event - September 6, 2007: Public invited
to attend
Mayor Coleman
to join neighbors to witness installation of a unique
solar electric system on one of Ohio’s first green
“LEED” homes |
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COLUMBUS – Mayor Coleman and residents will come
together on September 6th to watch the installation of
12 solar panels on a home in the King Lincoln District.
Media is invited to come see the live installation of
the 2 kW solar photovoltaic (PV) array. |
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Paying the price
Foreclosures teach hard lessons about reckless
borrowing, lending
The Columbus
Dispatch Editorial - Monday, August 20, 2007 |
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Gov. Ted Strickland's Foreclosure Prevention Task Force
has some worthy ideas for dealing with the fallout of
mortgage foreclosures and preventing future failures,
but the proposal to use tax dollars to refinance
adjustable-rate mortgages is off base. |
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Home Again program continues to rid
Columbus of blighted properties
Daily Reporter -
July 30, 2007
By: Melanie McIntyre, Staff Writer |
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Blighted houses at 180 and 192 Princeton Ave. in
Franklinton were torn down Friday by the city of
Columbus as neighbor Carol Stewart, joined by Mayor
Michael Coleman and other city officials, looked on. |
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Good call
Hot line for
homeowners in mortgage trouble can help avert larger
crisis
The Columbus
Dispatch -
Monday, July 9, 2007 |
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The
state's strong anti-predatory-lending bill enacted last
year will help prevent future foreclosures and heartache
for Ohioans. But for the thousands of Ohio borrowers
already in trouble or headed that way, some help is
available. |
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New York Times
July 3, 2007
Editorial - Affordable Housing |
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Nearly half of the country’s lowest-income families
suffer from what Harvard’s Joint Center for Housing
Studies describes as a severe housing cost burden that
places them at clear risk of homelessness. These
struggling families often live ... |
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Urbancrest housing complex up for
$9.8-million upgrade
This Week Community Newspapers - Grove City
Thursday, June 28, 2007 |
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Plans were
announced last week to invest $9.8-million in
revitalizing a section 8 housing complex in Urbancrest. |
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Foreclosure-prevention advice
Homeowners at wit's end turn to hot line
The Columbus Dispatch -
Monday, June 25, 2007
By
Barbara Carmen |
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Many Ohioans who face losing their homes have a problem
far more basic than having fallen behind on a few -- or
a dozen -- mortgage payments. |
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Urban Hollow Apartments getting 9.8
million makeover
Daily Reporter -
June 25, 2007
By: Melanie McIntyre, Staff Writer |
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Columbus
Housing Partnership, along with local, state and
national partners, last week announced it will put $9.8
million toward the revitalization of a Section 8 housing
complex in the village of Urbancrest, a historic
community in southwest Franklin County. |
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CHP cleans up Urbancrest complex
Southwest Messenger
By Sandi Latimer
Staff Writer |
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Saida
Said has seen a lot of change during the past year at
the Urbancrest apartment complex where she lives.
“There’s more
respect, more love of our home,” the 19-year-old nursing
student at Capital University said of living in Bending
Brook. “Nobody breaks windows. Gunshots no more. I wish
it could stay like this.” |
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'Hoping for a miracle'
Foreclosure catches longtime owner unaware
The Columbus Dispatch -
Wednesday, June 20, 2007
By
Jeb Phillips |
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Jean Mentzer's father built the house for her in 1963,
and she had lived there ever since. Then the Franklin
County sheriff's office said she had to get out.
She didn't realize that the deadline was 11:59 p.m. June
11 until a deputy put a bright-yellow card on her door
that Monday afternoon.
"Eviction will begin immediately!!!!" the card read. |
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Year-old foreclosure hotline receives
thousands of calls
Daily Reporter -
May 24, 2007
By: Melanie McIntyre, Staff Writer |
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One year after the launch of the 888-995-HOPE hotline in
Ohio, the Homeownership Preservation Foundation has
reported that there have been more than 7,000 calls from
the Buckeye State, 1,820 of which were from the Central
Ohio area. |
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Nonprofits carry ball for housing in the
city
Mayor's tax-abatement program has backed construction of
97 homes
The Columbus Dispatch - Sunday, May 6 2007
By
Mark Ferenchik |
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Before Freeda Parson moved into her new house in a
Hilltop neighborhood a year ago, her family tried to
talk her out of it. |
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The Columbus Dispatch -
February 9, 2007
By: Tracy Turner
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Nearly 200 Franklin County families have kept their homes from foreclosure, thanks to a 9-month-old effort by a group of nonprofit organizations. |
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Business First of Columbus - February 9, 2007
By: Saleha N. Ghani |
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The Columbus Housing Partnership said Friday the Ohio Department of Development has made $1 million available in Ohio Home Rescue Funds to prevent foreclosures in the state. |
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The Columbus Dispatch - January 24, 2007
By:
Barbara Carmen
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Loretta King hears the desperate stories: "I'm getting divorced." "I'm sick." "I lost my job."
Last year, a young mother of two came into King's Columbus Housing Partnership office saying she'd had brain surgery and was forced to quit work. Now, the Franklin County sheriff's office had set a date within weeks to sell her home. |
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The Columbus Dispatch - April 12, 2006
By: Mike Pramik
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When Crystal Eastwood nearly lost her Clintonville-area house to foreclosure two years ago, she turned to the Columbus Housing Partnership for help. |
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