CRL's Response to Bush/Paulson Plan
With 2 million foreclosures predicted over the next two years, the plan announced by President Bush for targeted loan modifications for some subprime borrowers is a positive, but very limited, first step. CRL estimates the President's plan will only help about 7% of subprime borrowers—about 145,000 families—because of the program's limited scope. For example, the plan does nothing to help hundreds of thousands of subprime borrowers who received "exploding" 2/28 adjustable-rate mortgages in 2005 (because these will have reset before the effective date of this plan) and those who have fallen