HAMP Not On A Ramp
Posted By thestatedtruth.com on August 20, 2010
HAMP stands for Home Affordable Modification Plan…… The key here is that these borrowers are still up to their eyeballs in debt after the modification.
From Treasury: HAMP Servicer Performance Report Through July 2010
According to HAMP, there are 255,934 “active trials”, down from 364,077 last month. There is still a large number of borrowers in limbo since only 165 thousand trials were started over the last 5 months. I expect another large number of cancellations in August.
The above graph shows the cumulative HAMP trial programs started.
Notice that the pace of new trial modifications has slowed sharply from over 150,000 in September to under 17,00 in July. The program is winding down …
Debt-to-income ratios
If we look at the HAMP program stats (see page 3), the median front end DTI (debt to income) before modification was 44.8% – the same as last month. And the back end DTI was an astounding 79.7 (about the same as last month).
Think about that for a second: for the median borrower, about 80% of the borrower’s income went to servicing debt. And the median is 63.5% after the modification.
These borrowers are still up to their eyeballs in debt after the modification.
Summary:
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