It sure is hard to get a handle on Making Home Affordable (MFA). Media coverage is scant and until recently, program information was hard to find and opaque when found. (But while still opaque, it at least exists now: see the Quick Links at the FinancialStability.gov MHA page.)
Our "Civic media" job at this diary is to assess MFA as fairly as we can and then to see if we can get media and government to respond and make needed changes. To this end, we've been asking if MHA is making a positive difference in your life or those of the 4-9 million at-risk homeowners MHA is supposed to benefit.
Hate to say it, but your 50 comments so far (from 20 commenters)in Parts I-III of this diary were not positive.
So today, in Part IV, we're giving a fairly negative assessment of MHA's effectiveness to date. You can validate or invalidate this assessment in today's poll. The more people who respond, the more weight this diary will carry if and when we start linking up with real estate reporters and government officials.
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