In an effort to help residents go through mortgage refinancing and keep their home out of the foreclosure process, Detroit’s Office of Foreclosure Prevention and Response has launched a new website to direct those in need to the proper resources.
The website – www.ForeclosureDetroit.com – will be run by the FPR, which itself is an initiative created by the Detroit Economic Growth Association.
The website will help provide information and resources involving foreclosure prevention, including links to counselors
"The biggest impediment to people losing their homes is that they don’t take action," said Diane McCloskey, FPR’s director of communication and community initiatives. "Less than 40 percent of people facing foreclosure take action. We want this website to be a catalyst for action and to enforce that wherever you are in the foreclosure process."
The website will also hold advice to help those who have seen their homes fall into foreclosure, as well as information regarding mortgage modification and rescue scams and how to avoid them.
Foreclosures have been one of the most dire problems affecting Detroit and its citizens. In order to make the city’s problems involving foreclosure more nationally known, photographer Gregory Holm and architect Matthew Padune constructed a project called Ice House Detroit. It consists of a single home covered in ice to give the illusion it has been abandoned.