August ‘radio hour’ digs into USDA housing loan program foreclosures
The show offers a behind-the-scenes look at recent reporting published on The Monitor's website.
Are you a public housing resident behind on rent? Received an Eviction Notice? Here’s what to know in Maine.
If you’re one of 1.6 million tenants living in public housing nationally, including 6,000 in Maine, here are some available safeguards.
A Maine woman paid her back rent. Her record still says she was evicted.
Repayment plans are supposed to help public housing tenants avoid eviction. In Maine, these deals have put evictions on their permanent records, even if they’ve fulfilled all the terms and were never actually evicted.
Tight rental market keeps domestic violence survivors in shelters longer
Advocates said they could meet only a fraction of the demand for emergency housing, with only 14 percent of eligible clients receiving shelter statewide.
The USDA wouldn’t let her give up her house when she couldn’t pay her mortgage. Instead, it crushed her with debt.
The USDA failed to follow its own guidance for a rural mortgage program, taking years to foreclose on delinquent loans. As a result, 55 Maine borrowers racked up, on average, $110,000 in additional debt before the agency moved to take the homes.
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