When the landlord defaults; Foreclosures force some of the poorest renters out of homes.
Tue, 26 Aug 2008 12:00:00 -0400 Ruth Cordoba has never owned a home, but she is feeling the effects of the mortgage meltdown acutely. Cordoba, 28, rented a three-bedroom home in Riverside for six months with the help of so-called Section 8 funds, money provided by the federal government through local housing agencies. In June, when her landlord could no longer make the mortgage payments on the house Cordoba was renting, she and her three children had to move to a hotel. "I never missed a rent payment," Cordoba said. "Then I hear someone outside one morning, and I go outside and see a sign on my door that says they're auctioning the house." The collapse of home mortgage lending, which according to U.S. Housing Secretary Steve Preston may lead to 2.5 million foreclosure filings nationwide this year, sent shock waves up the income strata -- from home buyers who took out subprime loans they couldn't pay, through banks that couldn't cover their losses on those loans, and onto high-end investors who had bought the banks' bad loans.
Pet-food recall leads to 6,000 claims and counting; Pet owners have until Nov. 24 to file to get a cash settlement
Tue, 26 Aug 2008 12:00:00 -0400 Almost 6,000 claims have been filed in a class-action settlement stemming from last year's massive pet-food recall. Menu Foods, other pet-food makers and retailers in May agreed to set up a $24 million cash fund to compensate pet owners whose cats and dogs became sick or died after eating food that had a contaminated ingredient from China.
Private student loans tougher to find, but families do have options
Tue, 26 Aug 2008 12:00:00 -0400 Your child will be a college freshman this year, and you're a little apprehensive. Will she pass Econ 101? Eat her vegetables? Come home for Thanksgiving with an anarchist boyfriend and a full body tattoo? For some parents, though, such worries are eclipsed by a more immediate concern: paying the bill for the coming semester. In recent months, several large lenders have stopped providing private student loans, stranding families that were counting on private loans to cover some of their costs. Last week, Education Finance Partners, the fourth-largest private lender, announced on its website that it had ceased operations. Borrowers who had been approved for loans from the company have been forced to look elsewhere for money.
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