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In a move that indicates its first rescue program was inadequate, the President Obama administration early Monday announced plans to widen the eligibility requirements of an essential housing initiative. The alteration allows homeowners with mortgage loans worth atleast 125 percent of their properties value to refinance into a more affordable mortgage loan. The earlier Making Home Affordable Program only permitted borrowers with loan values of 105 percent or less. The Making Homes Affordable refinancing/modification plan is part of the Obama's multi pronged attack on the nations most overwhelming housing slump since the Great Depression.

Here are 6 things you need to know about the broadened rescue:

1. Additional housing tweak - The widening of the Making Home Affordable plan follows the Barack Obama administration's recent change to its 1st time home buyer tax credit. In February, President Obama enacted this tax incentive, which provides up to $8,000 to qualified 1st time home buyer's, to stimulate housing demand and assist in mopping up surplus supply. In May, HUD brought out a plan that may provide home buyers faster access to these funds.

2. Freddie/Fannie - Even with the higher LTV ceiling, the basic framework of the plan continues in tact. Only homeowners with loans owned or secured by government-controlled housing finance heavyweights Freddie Mac or Fannie Mae can participate. At the same time, homeowners need to be up-to-date on their mortgage loan to have any chance at refinancing or getting a loan modification through the Making Home Affordable Program.

3. In its release Friday, HUD did acknowledge only tens of thousands of refinances had taken place so far, but not the millions first envisioned.

4. Home prices in 25 metropolitan areas fell by more than 20 percent in April from a year earlier. Sliding home prices draw the LTV out real estate. More than a 5th of Americans who owned a home were thought to be underwater, meaning they owe more on their mortgage loans than the home is worth, from January through the end of March. That is because the initial conditions of the plan prevented homeowners with mortgage loans above 105 percent of their properties value from taking part.

Some will not satisfy other plan requirements, such as being up-to-date on their mortgage loan. Keep in mind that as bond traders continue to become rattled by sharper increases in government spending, they will, without any doubt in our minds, send interest rates soaring to above 6.75% by the end of the year.

Most homeowners more often than not need a full 1 percent point difference between their current mortgage interest rate and market interest rates in order to really benefit from refinancing, higher interest rates have pummeled the housing market. So the population of mortgage loans that can be refinanced on a standard rate and term foundation simply is not very large in the 5 percent range. We are really going to need interest rates to head back into the 4 percent range in order to get the mortgage bus rolling again and only then will the Making Home Affordable Program work."

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With a love to wirte about anything government, I will follow the new administration and demand they not spend our childrens money on complete crap programs like the Making Home Affordable Program.

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