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housing policy tool box resources
Understand Why Foreclosures Matter
Villas on Sixth
Learn about the consequences and spill-over effects of foreclosures for families and communities.

Develop a Coordinated Response Strategy
Fall Creek Place
Work with partners to implement a strategic and comprehensive foreclosure response.

Prevent Foreclosure, Keep Families in Their Homes
High Point
Connect families with housing counseling, affordable refinancing options, and other innovative foreclosure prevention options.
Secure and Maintain Foreclosed Properties
Stony Brook
Preserve quality neighborhoods by ensuring that homes vacated due to foreclosure are maintained to community standards.

Bring Foreclosed Properties Back Into Use
Via Roble
Restore foreclosed properties to productive use by streamlining disposition processes and using innovative tools such as land banks.

Help Owner and Renter Families Recover
White Laurel
Help displaced renters and homeowners transition to stable, affordable housing and cope with the effects of foreclosure.


Photo credits (clockwise from upper left): Villas on Sixth, Austin TX -- photo courtesy of City of Austin/Neighborhood housing & Community Development; Fall Creek Place, Indianapolis IN -- photo courtesy of Chris Palladino/Mansur Real Estate Services, Inc.; High Point, Seattle WA -- photo courtesy of Seattle Housing Authority; White Laurel, Boone NC-- Todd Bush Photography courtesy of Northwestern Housing Enterprises; Via Roble, Escondido CA-- courtesy of Trinity Housing; Stony Brook, Westford MA -- photo credit: Robert Schoen

The Foreclosure Response team gratefully acknowledges the input and feedback provided for this policy section by Phyllis Betts, Center for Community Building and Neighborhood Action at the University of Memphis; Mary Cunningham, Urban Institute; Dan Immergluck, Georgia Institute of Technology; Chris Morton, Fannie Mae; Danilo Pelletiere, National Low Income Housing Coalition; and Peter Werwath. Please note, however, that the views and opinions expressed on Foreclosure-Response.org are those of the authors alone.