February foreclosures up 6% vs. 2009, off 2% vs ... - Marketwatch
He said the figures may not indicate that fewer homeowners ... programs are effectively capping foreclosure activity. And snowstorms in the Northeast and mid-Atlantic appeared to have slowed the processing of foreclosure records in some markets, he ...

Foreclosure rates rise by smallest amount in 4 years - Bradenton Herald
WASHINGTON — The foreclosure crisis isn’t over, but the pace of growth may finally be slowing down. RealtyTrac Inc. said today that the number of U.S. households facing foreclosure in February grew 6 percent from the year-ago level, the smallest ...

RealtyTrac: Florida foreclosure activity up in February - South Florida Business Journal
The picture was even more bleak in Palm Beach County, where there were 4,490, or one in every 143, homes in foreclosure ... In Miami-Dade County, there were 6,671 foreclosures, or one in every 147 homes, up 44 percent from a month earlier, when there ...

San Francisco LGBT Center asking city for $1 million - Record
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — San Francisco's Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Community Center is asking the city for some big financial help to stay afloat. Since opening in 2002, the $12.3 million, city-subsidized center has struggled to pay its ...

Solutions aren't easy for underwater mortgages - Detroit Free Press
The underwater mortgage problem has no easy solution, particularly in places like Michigan, which has shed nearly a million manufacturing jobs in the past decade. Some experts advocate for principal reductions. But that would be seen as "a big ...