Voices of Hope & Change
A Hundred Thousand Homeowners – Voices of Hope & Change
The foreclosure crisis MUST be stopped. And it would have been months ago… if America’s homeowners had a VOICE in Washington…
Next year is a very important election year. NOW is the time for the VOICE of America’s homeowners to be heard.
WHAT DO YOU THINK WOULD HAPPEN IF:
EVERY member of Congress…EVERY major newspaper, radio station and television news channel… The White House… EVERY major bank CEO’s office… EVERY nonprofit housing agency… the Internet… EVERY Governor’s desk… what if they ALL received a 22 minute DOCUMENTARY from America’s homeowners that told the story of what’s really happening in the neighborhoods of this country as the foreclosure crisis continues to grow and spread?
I’m not talking about some amateur home video here…
I’m talking about a broadcast quality program that opened with President Obama’s speech last February introducing the Making Home Affordable program, and then showed the realities of today. What it’s really like to deal with banks. The human tragedy that too many don’t understand, because they can’t see it… yet.
What do you think Congress would do in this… an election year?
Ignore it? I think not.
What do you think would happen when millions of Americans who have lost their homes to foreclosure saw what had been accomplished by “A Hundred Thousand Homeowners”? How many more would want to join the group… add to the VOICE.
There is no stronger or more outspoken advocate for homeowners in this country than Mandelman Matters and we want to help carry the VOICE of homeowners to the politicians on both sides of the aisle, to the bankers and mortgage servicers, to the media, and to the nation as a whole… through “A Hundred Thousand Homeowners – Voices of Hope & Change”.
In addition to being available on the Internet, the documentary, will be distributed on DVD, wrapped in BRIGHT YELLOW “A Hundred Thousand Homeowners” packaging. It will be IMPOSSIBLE TO IGNORE, the VOICE of homeowners will be heard.
SPECIFIC GOALS OF THE DOCUMENTARY:
A. We want Congress to act to strengthen the HAMP program by adding hard and fast rules under which banks MUST write down a mortgage. The program is funded by tax dollars and is NOT WORKING on a voluntary basis. Here’s how banks view loan modifications.
B. We want the Treasury Department or Congress to impose penalties on lenders and servicers who break the rules under HAMP. Here’s what a judge said about HAMP rules.
C. We want Congress to allow judges to modify mortgages in bankruptcy court, just like what President Obama spoke of in his speech introducing the program that would allow for judicial loan modifications. The threat alone wold motivate banks to do it themselves. My article on the subject: WE NEED JUDGES TO MODIFY THE WAY BANKS BEHAVE.
D. We want HAMP to require principal reductions under appropriate circumstances. It’s not fair for banks to be able to foreclose on a home and then sell it to a new buyer for half the balance on the mortgage just to get it off of their books. FDIC’s SHEILA BAIR AGREES: Read About What She Says Here.
E. Congress must remove incentives that banks have to foreclose. Read Diane Thompson’s testimony in front of the senate.
We need everyone’s help to make this happen, and it’s far too important to be allowed to fail. People ask me all the time how they can help. Well, here’s how. Together we can be heard… together we will make a difference.
The Documentary: A Hundred Thousand Homeowners
A Hundred Thousand Homeowners will open with President Obama’s speech introducing his Making Home Affordable program, which was to help millions, but has fallen far short of its goals. It will include interviews with real homeowners… unscripted… as they share what they’ve been forced to endure trying to save, or losing their homes.
A Hundred Thousand Homeowners – A wake-up call in Washington.
It will send the very clear message that doing nothing is not an option… that favoring the banks over the American people, at a time like this, can only result in being voted out of office. The VOICE of A Hundred Thousand Homeowners will echo through the halls of our Congress and into the Oval Office.
Please join this virtual march on Washington