{"id":4586,"date":"2010-03-02T14:58:17","date_gmt":"2010-03-02T19:58:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/?p=4586"},"modified":"2011-01-20T16:02:26","modified_gmt":"2011-01-20T21:02:26","slug":"avoiding-home-foreclosures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/2010\/03\/02\/avoiding-home-foreclosures\/","title":{"rendered":"Avoiding home foreclosures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-4587\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/files\/2010\/03\/foreclosure-sign-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"foreclosure sign\" width=\"135\" height=\"135\" \/>The Obama administration is considering proposals to <a title=\"ban all foreclosures\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/02\/26\/business\/economy\/26modify.html\" target=\"_blank\">ban all foreclosures <\/a>on home loans unless they first have been examined for possible modification.\u00a0 Professor <a title=\"Jack Aber\" href=\"http:\/\/smgnet.bu.edu\/mgmt_new\/profiles\/AberJack.html\" target=\"_blank\">Jack Aber<\/a>, chairman of the Department of Finance and Economics in the School of Management, says\u00a0it could be palatable to lenders if the government eases accounting rules having to do with the values that mortgages must be carried on their balance sheets.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Otherwise,\u00a0the proposal to require review for any loan before it can be foreclosed on could very likely lead to some institutions failing.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Contact Jack Aber, 617-353-4404, <a href=\"mailto:jackaber@bu.edu\">jackaber@bu.edu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Obama administration is considering proposals to ban all foreclosures on home loans unless they first have been examined for possible modification.\u00a0 Professor Jack Aber, chairman of the Department of Finance and Economics in the School of Management, says\u00a0it could be palatable to lenders if the government eases accounting rules having to do with the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":114,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4491],"tags":[2335,2336,2333,2334],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4586"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/114"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4586"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4586\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7862,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4586\/revisions\/7862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}