At 1pm on Friday, July 24, Michigan Radio will air a our Facing the Mortgage Crisis documentary. We will host a live web/Twitter chat at 1pm to take your questions and comments about the program. You can use the box below to set an email reminder for yourself. Visit this page for more info.

We will incorporate a Twitter chat using the hashtag #FTMC to track the conversation. All you need is a Twitter account and you can use a site like TweetChat to participate. This will work like a web chat, except every message remains on Twitter permanently.

You can also follow the web chat as an RSS feed. Stay tuned for more information.

Detroit has one of the worse foreclosure rates in the country, but just a couple years ago, Cleveland was in the same position. But Cleveland has made some progress in that department with a new program it rolled out earlier this year.

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The Braun family barely avoided losing their farm. Their housing counselor, Kathy Grant, helped them avoid foreclosure at the last minute. Here Paula Braun tells us her story in her own words.

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Michigan Radio has won a Clarion from the Association for Women in Communications in the One Time Documentary Category for “Foreclosing on the American Dream.”

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At 1pm on Thursday, July 16, Michigan Radio’s Charity Nebbe hosted a call-in show for our Facing the Mortgage Crisis project. Guests Jamele Hage and Heather Mooney came into the studio, and Don Grimes joined in over the phone. In addition to taking calls from the audience, we hosted a web chat to take comments and questions.

Listen to the program and read the web chat HERE.

If you’re facing the possibility of foreclosure, or if you’re just trying to get help cutting your credit card bill, there are a lot of companies that will say they can help you. But in Michigan, some these companies just want to scam you.

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Part of Michigan’s response to the foreclosure crisis is a new law that gives homeowners the chance to freeze for 90 days any action to repossess houses or condominiums.

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Foreclosures don’t just hurt families, they hurt entire neighborhoods. Foreclosed properties reduce the value of other homes around it, and if houses sit vacant too long, they attract vandalism and crime.

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We hear lots of statistics about the foreclosure crisis. How many people have lost their homes. How much money the banks are losing…and what that means to the economy. But there’s another statistic we don’t hear much about. Michigan Radio’s Rina Miller reports.

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There are now four town hall meetings planned in the Metro Detroit area. We have created a Google Map to help you find the closest meeting. Click a map icon to see the time and date of that meeting, and also to get driving directions. Please visit the Events page for more info.

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