05 / 14 / 2012
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Florida is now sitting on about $300 million in mortgage-settlement funds, and everyone from real-estate agents to victimized homeowners has been advising state Attorney General Pam Bondi on how to spend it. The public has until the end of today to email or call the Florida Attorney General's Office with suggestions for spending the money, part of a $25 billion legal settlement of abusive-lending allegations reached in February between attorneys general for 49 states and the nation's five biggest mortgage lenders
05 / 14 / 2012
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As a strong advocate for affordable housing, Florida Realtors urges Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi to put the Sadowski Housing Trust Fund at the top of the state’s list to receive some of an expected $300-plus million due from the recent foreclosure legal settlement with five of the nation’s largest banks. Read the full Destin Log article here
05 / 10 / 2012
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Floridians now have an easy way to suggest constructive ways for their state to spend millions of dollars from the proceeds of a mortgage-fraud settlement. Florida was among the states that joined the federal government to sue the nation's five largest mortgage servicers, alleging foreclosure abuses and unacceptable nationwide mortgage-servicing practices. Florida's share of the $25 billion settlement is $8.4 billion. Read the full Ledger article
05 / 09 / 2012
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Advocates of affordable housing in Florida, listen up: You have a chance to weigh in on how the state uses $300 million to ease the pain of the foreclosure crisis, but you must act quickly. The funds were part of a court-approved, $25-billion settlement that Attorney General Pam Bondi and 48 of her counterparts in other states managed to wrest from five of the nation’s greediest banks and mortgage servicers to clean up the robo-signing scandal that delivered grief to tens of thousands of homeowners across the country
05 / 08 / 2012
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Lawmakers again swept document stamp tax funds this year that were supposed to go toward affordable housing programs, but a multi-state foreclosure fraud settlement has given groups supporting those programs new hope. Read the full article here
05 / 02 / 2012
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03 / 23 / 2012
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The Salvation Army's idea to build affordable housing for families -- and put a small plug in the gaping hole of local residential options for low-income workers -- merits an open and honest community discussion. In the current market, apartment rents are out of reach for many with minimum-wage jobs and part-time employment. Read the full article
03 / 13 / 2012
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The 2012 session saw lawmakers advance relatively few measures affecting elections, with one obvious exception: The redrawing of Florida's legislative and congressional boundaries began over the summer as the mother of all interim projects while lawmakers held 26 public hearings across the state. Read more here
