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Tag: California
Welcome to the 2016 Election Issue of Fi2W’s Online Magazine
A message from Fi2W’s Executive Producer
Why This DACAmented Immigrant is Encouraging Young Voters to Look Beyond “Two Evils”
Despite not being eligible to vote, Angel Quintero is deeply involved in this year’s election
Startup Hopes to Hack the Immigration System With a Floating Incubator
A new company called Blueseed is hoping to circumnavigate the stagnation of the immigration system and bring highly skilled immigrants to work 12 miles off of the California coast.
De Leon: Reasonable State Responses to Immigration
Columnist Erwin De Leon writes that unlike Alabama, some states are bucking the trend and providing humane solutions to our nation’s broken immigration system.
California Dream Act – Part II – Appears Headed for Passage
California is poised to become the first state in the nation to allow its undocumented youth population to apply for public financial aid for higher education.
California Says ‘Yes’ To In-State Tuition For Undocumented Immigrants
Cautiously optimistic advocates cheered the California Supreme Court’s decision on Monday to continue allowing undocumented students to pay in-state tuition rates to public colleges, assuming they attend high school in California for at least three years.
Foreclosures Still Rising, Immigrants and Latinos Among the Hardest Hit
By Pilar Marrero, La Opinión and FI2W reporter
California has a high rate of foreclosures. (Photo: La Opinión)
LOS ANGELES — Activists have a pet name for Hope for Homeowners (H4H), the government initiative that’s supposed to help struggling mortgage holders keep their homes: they call it “hoho”.
“It’s a sad kind of humor, but it reflects a reality,” says Kathleen Day of the Center for Responsible Lending, a homeowners advocacy group. “We have yet to see a significant effect of these programs for most people.”
Many people across the country who are –or expect soon to be– unable to continue payments on their mortgages have placed their hopes on H4H, otherwise known as “the Obama plan”. Latinos have been experiencing foreclosures at a higher rate than the rest of the U.S. poulation, following a decade-long push to increase minority ownership. Figures released this week show that, instead of diminishing, foreclosures are rising quickly.
“I want to know, how much can my mortgage payment be reduced?” asks Norma Ochoa, a woman from Los Angeles that has been keeping up with her payments so far despite losing one of her two cleaning jobs.
Many, like Ochoa, are still waiting for an answer.
“The bank says they can not yet help me. That I need to wait,” she says, at the offices of a local organization that helps people negotiate with banks. “I don’t think I’m gonna be able to continue paying for long.”
RealtyTrac’s latest foreclosure report, released Wednesday, shows that during the first quarter of this year, foreclosure filings increased 13% compared to the previous 3 months.