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Happy 40th to our old friends at Worcester Magazine. Thanks also to the Worcester Magazine Editorial Board for including WCCA TV in their editorial today. WCCA TV is proven to be ” RESILIENT”. We are proud of that and happy to know our relevancy is stronger now more than ever in this new digital frontier.
THANK YOU !
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*Increased Foreclosures Devastating Communities – Increased Lawlessness and
Softened Enforcement the Cause*
“What once was my American Dream to own a home and start a life-long
investment at the age of 22 turned into being years and years of
devastating financial burden ruined credit and constant fear of failure
loss and homelessness,” explains Kate Palmaccio of Lunenberg, mother of a
toddler. Palmaccio is one of the many homeowners swept up in the massive
increase in foreclosures in 2015. The Warren Group today released figures
that the first 11 months of 2015 saw a 50 percent increase over that period
in 2014.
Although industry analysts claim these foreclosures are an upswing because
banks have figured out how to follow the laws, those on the ground are
seeing no such indication.
“They are not successfully navigating the process. They are getting away
with more; it is that the enforcement of the regulations has softened.
HomeCorps is essentially over and they are not even attempting to follow
HAMP guidelines,” explained Jon Marien, Foreclosure Inervention and Default
HUD Counselor, at the Neighborworks Homeownership Center in Worcester.
“We are canvassing over 50 properties every other week and finding the bulk
of them vacant as people are leaving and abandoning their properties when
banks refuse to modify their loans further destroying our neighborhoods and
community,” said Rose Webster-Smith, lead organizer for Springfield No One
Leaves and a homeowner fighting herself to save her home “post-foreclosure”.
As homeowner activists and their allies having been continuing work to hold
off the new Law that is designed to sweep illegalities of past foreclosures
under the carpet if former homeowners do not act in a year to protect their
rights, those working on this issue on the ground are concerned.
“The bad legislation has not even gone into effect, and its like they were
waiting to make the attack and they see no re-enforcements,” explained
Silas Sanderson, an outreach leader for the Worcester Anti-Foreclosure
Team. Worcester County has seen the largest increase with an almost 100%
increase year to date in petitions to foreclose, the first visible step in
the foreclosure pipeline.
Meanwhile, experts in the field point to real solutions to the massive
surge in those in the foreclosure pipeline which will stop the damage of
foreclosures and actually save lenders money.
“As a lawyer who knows this area and a long-time professional neutral
mediator, I know that those who have not seen the transformative power of
face-to-face mediation may not appreciate it. But I am not surprised that
Lynn’s short period of pre-foreclosure mediation resulted in 97% of
participants receiving affordable loan modifications,” stated David L.
Evans, Murphy & King, “Given the massive increases of those in the
foreclosure pipeline and the fore-shortened right to cure period in
Massachusetts, now is the time for a pre-foreclosure mediation program
statewide.” An Act Facilitating Alternatives to Foreclosure is positioned
to move this legislative session if legislators act soon.
As Jane Brady of Newton MA explained what mediation could have done for
her, “My flight has been a long, stressful & horrible ordeal. I was forced
to declare bankruptcy to stop the 1st foreclosure attempt, which is now
held against me in any court hearings to fight & reverse a wrongful
foreclosure. The private investor who holds my loan refused to negotiate
nor did they offer mediation to avoid a foreclosure. CitiMortgage allegedly
sold my loan to a Private Hedge Fund Investor, while my HAMP Modification
was in the underwriting process. This was my 4th HAMP Modification request.
I finally was truly eligible & met all criteria for approval, but was
denied because ‘my loan was sold & now paid’”
To learn more about this issue or to speak with homeowners or advocates,
please contact MAAPL at 508-630-1686 or maaplinfo@yahoo.com.
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Grace C Ross
Grace Ross Committee
774-271-7677
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Announcement from “The WORCESTER JOURNAL”
We’re happy to announce that the Winter 2015-16 issue is now live. It is filled with our usual mix of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry from new writers, and we trust you will find it entertaining, informative, and insightful.
Two exciting new announcements: Firstly, We will begin paying our writers with the Spring 2016 issue. Our writers (and photographers) put a lot of time and effort into their pieces, and we hope that some compensation, no matter how modest, will affirm the value of their productions.
Secondly, we have established the Not Man Apart Award of $1,000 for writing published in the Journal concerning the relationship between our planet and humankind. The prize of $1,000 will be awarded from time to time to an author who, in the opinion of the editors, has produced memorable and insightful writing on this subject.
Both of these initiatives are the result of the continuing support o the Judy and Tony King foundation, for whose generosity and belief in the crucial importance of art and literature in our lives we are endlessly grateful.
More information is to be found in the current issue.
Please be so kind as to share the Journal on any platform and in any venue where it might reach those who will appreciate it, and, especially, those who might want to write for it.
Sincerely,
Jim Dempsey
The Worcester Journal
Bancroft School
Shore Drive
Worcester
MA 01605
(508) 854-9204
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January 11th is National Human Trafficking Awareness Day. An outdoor
Rally on the steps of City Hall (Main Street) from 8:00AM – 9:00AM has been planned
by the City Manager’s Advisory Committee on the Status of Women. Excellent speakers
(WAASE, a survivor, others working in outreach) will outline what is going on in our
City and will definitely raise awareness about this tragic crime.
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Happy New Year! I am writing to inform you that The Worcester Free Tax Service
Coalition (formerly the Worcester Earned Income Tax Credit Coalition) will hold its
Annual Kickoff Event on Friday, January 29, 2016 at 10:00 AM at the Woo Church, 875
Main Street, Worcester, MA. We would be pleased to see you at this event.
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Thanks to the T&G for the article and support about WCCA TV’s NEW VOICES 2015: http://www.telegram.com/article/20160106/ENTERTAINMENTLIFE/st_refDomain=t.co&st_refQuery=/HkoDLTQgop
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