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As state and federal authorities announced the details of their $26 billion mortgage settlement with big banks on Thursday, mill
As state and federal authorities announced the details of their $26 billion mortgage settlement with big banks on Thursday, mill
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2014-09-18
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As state and federal authorities announced the details of their $26 billion mortgage settlement with big banks on Thursday, millions of American homeowners were hoping that this time they would finally get relief.
The bulk of the settlement, about $20 billion, would go to one million American homeowners who would have their mortgage debts reduced or their loans refinanced at a lower interest rate. It also includes $1.5 billion for roughly 750,000 people who lost their homes to foreclosure between 2008 and 2011, with each receiving between $1,500 and $2,000.
Economists do not expect a big boost for the economy, in part because the banks have three years to distribute the aid. Some experts questioned whether the accord would do much to stabilize the housing market and its glut of millions of foreclosed homes.
Critics also pointed to the fact that millions of mortgages owned by the government’s housing finance agencies, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, would not be covered under the deal, excluding about half the nation’s mortgages.
"The effect of this settlement will be catalytic," Shaun Donovan, the secretary of Housing and Urban Development, said in an interview. He predicted it would spur more loan modifications through existing government programs as well as principal reductions—when loan debt is written down for borrowers who owe more than what their home is worth—as well as additional mortgage relief provided by banks.
Advocates for homeowners facing foreclosure expressed cautious optimism after the settlement was announced on Thursday morning in Washington. "We’re hopeful," said Joseph Sant, a lawyer at Staten Island Legal Services’ homeowner defense project. "But we had a lot of programs that are good on paper. What will make the difference is that it’s vigorously enforced."
President Obama declared the deal the largest federal-state settlement in the nation’s history.
"No compensation, no amount of money, no measure of justice is enough to make it right for a family who’s had their piece of the American dream wrongly taken from them," he said. "And no action, no matter how meaningful, is going to by itself entirely heal the housing market. But this settlement is a start."
Banks stocks were mixed in trading on Thursday, but shares of Bank of America rose 0.62 percent to $8.18, its highest level since September. Much of the money to pay for the settlement has already been reserved, and investors expect the settlement to remove at least one legal worry for Bank of America.
More than just an attempt to aid consumers and stabilize the housing market, government officials cast the settlement as an effort to finally hold banks
accountable
for their misdeeds, more than three years after the mortgage collapse brought on a full-scale financial crisis.
From The New York Times, February 12, 2012
Which of the following is NOT true about the mortgage settlement?
选项
A、To reduce mortgage debts of American homeowners.
B、To reduce the interest rate of the American homeowners.
C、To help boost the housing market of America.
D、To help those who lost their homes to foreclosure.
答案
C
解析
本题为细节题。根据文章第二段可知选项A、B和D都是文中提到的,所以选项C是答案。
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