WASHINGTON - Despite signs of revival in housing, the Obama administration announced on Thursday an extension of its principal program for helping distressed homeowners to get mortgage modifications and avoid foreclosure. Facts HAMP AND OTHERS: Despite disappointing results, now will last through 2015 Jacob J. Lew, the Treasury secretary, and Shaun Donovan, secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development, said the Making Home Affordable program, which includes the Home Affordable Modification Program, known as HAMP, and related consumer protections, would remain in effect through 2015. They were due to lapse at the end of this year. Under HAMP, the federal government gives...
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