White Paper In Support of The Home Mortgage Bridge Loan Assistance Act of 2012

34 Pages Posted: 19 Jan 2012 Last revised: 9 Feb 2012

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Robert C. Hockett

Cornell University - Law School

Michael Campbell

affiliation not provided to SSRN

Date Written: January 17, 2012

Abstract

This White Paper provides background information and explanation in support of passage of the statute that we have drafted -- the Home Mortgage Bridge Loan Assistance Act of 2012 -- by the legislature of New York. Many homeowners now faced with the threat of foreclosure are only temporarily in distress owing to transitory income loss rooted in temporary unemployment or underemployment. In consequence many foreclosures, along with their many harmful effects upon home prices as well as neighborhoods and families, can be avoided at very low cost through bridge loan assistance programs. Pennsylvania's highly successful HEMAP program, instituted in the early 1980s, is a conspicuous case in point. Our draft statute aims to replicate the benefits of HEMAP while also incorporating lessons learned in the several decades since HEMAP's implementation.

Keywords: Mortgages, mortgage debt, mortgage relief, bridge loans, bridge loan assistance, foreclosure-prevention, housing

Suggested Citation

Hockett, Robert C. and Campbell, Michael, White Paper In Support of The Home Mortgage Bridge Loan Assistance Act of 2012 (January 17, 2012). Cornell Legal Studies Research Paper No. 12-03, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1987159 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1987159

Robert C. Hockett (Contact Author)

Cornell University - Law School ( email )

Myron Taylor Hall
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY 14853-4901
United States

Michael Campbell

affiliation not provided to SSRN

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