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• Top 7 Foreclosure Stories of Past Year

  Jun 19, 2008 | via Realty Trac 

  The euphoria that surrounded six years of escalating home prices, record levels of home sales and rock-bottom interest rates crashed and burned in 2007, forcing many foreclosure investors to ratchet down their ...

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  Related Topix: Financial Services, Housing, Foreclosures, Home, Mortgage

Local Headlines

• Tax relief coming for some in state

  Wednesday | via NOLA.com 

  Mortgage help for homeowners nationwide and tax relief for some Louisiana Road Home recipients sailed through the House on Wednesday after President Bush lifted his veto threat.

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  Related Topix: George Bush, Foreclosures, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance

• Mortgage, tax relief bill nears adoption

  Friday Jul 11 | via Times-Picayune 

  A long-stalled measure to help Louisiana residents facing big tax bills on their Road Home grants edged closer to adoption Thursday when the Senate cleared the final procedural obstacle.

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, US Politics, David Vitter, Mary Landrieu, US News, US Senate, Republican, Democrat

• 5 join Jeff races as qualifying slows

  Thursday Jul 10 | via NOLA.com 

  At the close of qualifying Thursday, only five new candidates registered to run for public office in Jefferson Parish, making the second day of election sign-ups sharply less active than Wednesday, when 56 ...

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  Related Topix: Real Estate, New Orleans Metro, New Orleans, LA, Metairie, LA, Harahan, LA, US News

• Slow morning in Jefferson Parish qualifying

  Thursday Jul 10 | via NOLA.com 

  The pace of qualifying for the Oct. 4 election slowed on its second morning in Jefferson Parish, with only two new candidates registering to run for public office.

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  Related Topix: Real Estate, New Orleans Metro, New Orleans, LA, Metairie, LA, Westwego, LA, US News

• 'Sweat equity' helps hammer away at mortgage

  Friday Jun 27 | via Planning 

  For months, Reggie Isaac sweated over his unfinished house in Boutte. Every morning before leaving for his job as an air conditioning maintenance worker at Doctors Hospital in Metairie, Isaac, who was displaced ...

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  Related Topix: Slidell, LA, Agriculture, Science, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Boutte, LA

Regional Headlines

• Congressional Democrats resume Katrina tour

  Monday Jul 21 | via The Mississippi Press 

  House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Monday she supports the state's call to extend the timetable for Louisiana to make its $1.8 billion share of payments for levee improvements.

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  Related Topix: Louisiana, Home, Mortgage

• Volunteer with New Orleans Area Habitat for Humanity

  Wednesday Jul 16 | via Associated Content 

  Years after the devastation of Hurricane Katrina, there is still much work to be done in the ravaged areas of New Orleans and beyond, and several nonprofit organizations have steadfastly been rebuilding, ...

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  Related Topix: Southern University System, Home, Mortgage, Louisiana

• Louisiana

  Wednesday Jul 9 | via Town of Vivian, Louisiana 

  Officially licensed Louisiana State Tigers apparel, merchandise, and gifts. Jerseys, t-shirts, caps, and sweatshirts for men, women, and kids.

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Louisiana, Natchitoches, LA

• Landrieu, Vitter target loan fees

  Tuesday Jul 8 | via Times-Picayune 

  Prompted by the intense lobby effort of a local mortgage broker, Louisiana's two senators have authored legislation that could force Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to suspend a new set of fees that could stall the ...

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  Related Topix: US News, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Louisiana, US Politics, David Vitter, Mary Landrieu, US Senate, Republican, Democrat

• Governor Jindal Signs Bills into Law

  Thursday Jul 3 | via KLFY-TV Lafayette 

  Today, Governor Bobby Jindal announced that he has signed the following bills passed by the legislature into law: HB 10 - Richardson This bill establishes the Mayor's Court of the city of Central.

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, US Politics, US News, Bobby Jindal, Republican, US House of Representatives, Louisiana

National Headlines

• Housing rescue bill heads to Bush for signature

  3 min ago | via Morris Daily Herald 

  Congress passed the most significant housing legislation in decades Saturday, offering help to struggling homeowners and seeking to stabilize a troubled housing market that has dragged down the economy.

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  Related Topix: George Bush, Foreclosures, US Politics, US News, 2008 Presidential Election, Home, Mortgage

• Bill heads to Bush for signature

  4 min ago | via WWLP 

  The Senate has overwhelmingly approved a bill aimed at helping thousands of struggling homeowners fight off foreclosure.

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  Related Topix: Foreclosures, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance

• Federal Regulators Close Two More Banks

  4 min ago | via X101.5 

  Federal regulators have closed two banks in the West, saying they were undercapitalized due to the poor performance of home mortgage loans.

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Reno Metro, Reno, NV

• U.S. Congress approves massive housing bill

  4 min ago | via The Globe and Mail 

  The bill was approved by the Senate in a 72-13 vote. It was passed by the House of Representatives on Wednesday.

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  Related Topix: Housing, George Bush, Financial Services, Fannie Mae, US News, US Politics, Home, Mortgage

• Provisions of housing-mortgage relief bill

  4 min ago | via Buffalo News 

  The housing bill that Congress passed Saturday and sent to President Bush would: -Give the Federal Housing Administration $300 billion in new lending authority and relax standards to provide affordable, ...

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