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Foreclosure Crisis Focus Of TV Program

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By MIKE SALINERO

msalinero@tampatrib.com

Published: January 3, 2009

TAMPA - Hillsborough Television's "County Connections" program will feature local experts talking about the mounting housing foreclosure crisis.

The program will examine ways residents can take advantage of foreclosure prevention programs and funding assistance that could save their homes.

Foreclosures in Hillsborough County have doubled every year since 2006, with of 18,878 foreclosure applications received by the Clerk of Circuit Court through November.

Guests on the program will include Valmarie Turner of the county Affordable Housing Office; Chloe Coney, district director for U.S. Rep. Kathy Castor, D-Tampa; and Bill Sanchez of the Tampa Bay Community Development Corp.

Turner will discuss the county's HomeSavers Program for residents in danger of losing their homes and the nationally funded Neighborhood Stabilization Program, which pays for local governments to buy abandoned and foreclosed houses to rehabilitate.

Coney will talk about workshops sponsored by Castor's office that help connect homeowners with counseling organizations, as well as national funding for foreclosure prevention efforts.

Sanchez will relate firsthand stories of homeowners facing foreclosure, and how counseling programs approved by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development can help residents avoid scams and save their homes.

CHECK IT OUT

"County Connections" will air at 5:30 p.m. Thursday. HTV is on Bright House Channel 622, and Verizon and Comcast Channel 22.

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