More Homes Are Being Foreclosed Than At Any Other Time in Our Nation’s History

There is more good news for “recovery summer”. Over the last financial quarter, more homes have been foreclosed on across the country than at any other time in our nation’s history:

Banks repossessed a record number of U.S. homes in the second quarter, but slowed new foreclosure notices to manage distressed properties on the market, real estate data company RealtyTrac said on Thursday.

The root problems of job losses and wage cuts persist, making a sustained U.S. housing recovery elusive.

Banks took control of 269,962 properties in the second quarter, up 5 percent from the prior quarter and a 38 percent spike from the second quarter of last year, RealtyTrac said in its midyear 2010 foreclosure report.
Repossessions will likely top 1 million this year.

"The underlying conditions haven't improved," RealtyTrac senior vice president Rick Sharga said in an interview.

The housing market still grapples with "unemployment, economic displacement in general, and still sits on over 5 million seriously delinquent loans that in all likelihood will at some point go into foreclosure," he said.

You mean having Obama and the Democrats pass the stimulus package and throw money at the problematic economy didn’t help the foreclosure rate any?!? Shocking!!!