Fair to assist struggling homeowners
Fair to assist struggling homeowners
0 Comments | Chattanooga Times Free Press, Jul 9, 2010
By Adam Crisp
acrisp@timesfreepress.com
While signs of economic improvement start and stall across the country, Dalton, Ga., and Whitfield County continue to feel the burden of the housing crisis.
“You see this stuff on the news, ‘Oh, the economy’s getting better,’” said Gaile Jennings, executive director of the Dalton-Whitfield Community Development Corp. “It might be in other places, but when we had our Home Rescue Fair here last September, at that time, one in seven households in Georgia were behind on their mortgage. Well, now it’s one in six.”
To address the situation, Whitfield County is holding another daylong Home Rescue Fair on July 17 to help struggling property owners stay in their homes.
Home foreclosure filings in the county were up 33 percent in May compared to the same month a year before, according to RealtyTrac, which tracks filings nationwide.
Whitfield County ranks 32nd out of 159 Georgia counties for home foreclosure filings, and one out of every 296 county homes has had foreclosure proceedings initiated, according to RealtyTrac
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