{"id":236,"date":"2010-03-27T18:50:48","date_gmt":"2010-03-27T23:50:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/random-musings.org\/?p=236"},"modified":"2023-07-25T21:13:09","modified_gmt":"2023-07-26T02:13:09","slug":"steps-to-prevent-foreclosure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/random-musings.org\/index.php\/2010\/03\/27\/steps-to-prevent-foreclosure\/","title":{"rendered":"Steps To Prevent Foreclosure"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">The Obama administration is seeking to find ways to prevent foreclosures among homeowners who have lost their jobs.&nbsp; The feeling is that these homeowners are unable to pay their mortgages through no fault of their own, so should not be penalized by losing their homes.&nbsp; A noble, compassionate sentiment, to be sure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">What about me?&nbsp; I don&#8217;t own a home.&nbsp; I live in an apartment.&nbsp; I am unemployed and unable to pay my rent.&nbsp; Why isn&#8217;t there some sort of effort to help me keep my apartment?&nbsp; My situation is exactly the same as a homeowner, insofar as being unemployed and unable to pay my monthly fees.&nbsp; The only difference I can see is that I have zero equity in my apartment and derived no tax benefits from paying rent &#8211; unlike homeowners, who get all kinds of tax breaks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Why are we apartment dwellers penalized for not being homeowners?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Obama administration is seeking to find ways to prevent foreclosures among homeowners who have lost their jobs.&nbsp; The feeling is that these homeowners are unable to pay their mortgages through no fault of their own, so should not be &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/random-musings.org\/index.php\/2010\/03\/27\/steps-to-prevent-foreclosure\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-social-commentary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/random-musings.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/random-musings.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/random-musings.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/random-musings.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/random-musings.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/random-musings.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":673,"href":"https:\/\/random-musings.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236\/revisions\/673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/random-musings.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/random-musings.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/random-musings.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}