Critics say that this is the government’s way of bailing out lenders and borrowers who have been reckless in the past. Many others in the state view this as a much needed effort on the government’s part, where the people connected with Pennsylvania foreclosure homes were looking for some relief.

In Allegheny County in Pennsylvania, 2,320 homes have been foreclosed. This has incited Sheriff William Mullen, proposing a plan, where owners of repo homes in Pennsylvania (Allegheny in particular) will have help in avoiding foreclosures. The Allegheny County Common Pleas Court has been asked to pass orders for lenders to meet borrowers who are delinquent to work on new payment plans before the property goes up for ’sheriff’s-sale’. He sees this as a final effort to help homeowners facing foreclosure.

In Wyoming County, Dave Bollinger, the state’s officer for hazard mitigation, said that around a request for $1.4 million has been made, to be used as money for hazard mitigation. The Pennsylvania Emergency Management Agency and the Federal Emergency Management Agency are to review the application.

Tony Litwin, the County’s Commissioner expects the funds to be cleared by November.

Bollinger said that Eaton County’s request had passed, but the approval of Wyoming County’s request was still to go through, mentioning that the funds available for hazard mitigation were limited. The township of Eaton expects to receive $554,250.

Randy Ehrenzeller, Eaton Township’s supervisor said that even though it might take some months before the funds are cleared, the community was very happy with the request being approved.

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The June reports for foreclosures in Pennsylvania are even more shocking. There has been an 80% increase in number of monthly payment defaulters here when compared to June 2007. The number of payment default notices, auctions and bank owned homes of the Pennsylvania foreclosure homes has increased substantially and have caused a great concern amongst the government departments.

Lot of amendments has been made by the governor Mr. Ed Rendell to reduce the number of foreclosure homes in Pennsylvania even before the RealtyTrac report was released. Five bills have been passed by the governor to protect the homeowners from mortgage malpractices. The money lenders and home lenders will have to adhere to strict rules and regulations and will have to give maximum information to the homeowners.

To reduce the Pennsylvania foreclosures, the bill makes it mandatory for all mortgage brokers to undergo training and must be licensed by the state government before they start working. There have been cases here in which the money lenders have inflated the prices of the homes and took undue advantage of the homeowner’s ignorance. The law now can impose a cash fine up to $10,000 if the money lenders or mortgage brokers are found guilty by the Attorney General and the Banking Department.

The provisions in the law really create an impression of protecting the residents from losing their homes to Pennsylvania foreclosure homes. Now the homeowners will also be allowed to check the bank records to see what kind of penalties and fines were imposed on them. This wasn’t allowed in the previous law.

There is another regulation in the pipe line, which says that the mortgage companies will have to prove that the borrower can really pay back the loan. This will reduce future increase in Pennsylvania foreclosures.

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