Melanie Zoltan writes the Boston Home Improvement Blog for HomeStars.com. She lives in the metroWest Boston area and enjoys the Big Dig, putting a chair on the street to mark her parking spot during snow storms, driving on 128 during rush hour, and rotaries. 
Free legal aid in Boston for homeowners facing foreclosure
Boston and the suburbs are all about housing news these days. We're past peak, but how far past peak? Sudbury homes are selling at higher prices than last year while the median sales price in Framingham dropped 6.8% last quarter. Have prices bottomed out? How about foreclosures? Are there many in your neighborhood?Foreclosures in the northern part of the Boston area tripled in 2007, from 361 in 2006 to 1,007.
According to the Boston Globe:
Hardest hit are cities such as Chelsea, Haverhill, and Lynn, where the foreclosure crisis threatens the stability of old neighborhoods. Foreclosures of two- and three-family homes soared 202 percent, to 353 homes in 2007 from 117 in 2006, the data show. Foreclosures of condominiums, the source of new housing growth in cities, increased 192 percent, to 216 units, from 74 the prior year. Foreclosures on single-family homes rose 177 percent, to 471, from 170 in 2006, according to the data.
Boston has announced a new program to provide free legal aid to residents facing foreclosure:
The city's Department of Neighborhood Development will refer homeowners threatened with foreclosure and tenants facing eviction to attorneys with the Boston Real Estate Bar Association. The attorneys, who have agreed to work pro bono to help city residents whose incomes are 80 percent of the median income or lower, will help them sue lenders, refinance their loans, file bankruptcy, or take other legal action.
You can call the Department of Neighborhood Development at (617)635-3880.
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