More On Maryland Man Who Paid Off Mortgage & Lost Home To Foreclosure Anyway

The Baltimore Sun reports:

• "Kwaku Atta Poku, the Columbia taxi owner who lost his family's townhouse to foreclosure despite making every mortgage payment, is moving to a new rental home, thanks to help from a community group using a new state program to help them recover. "With us moving to this place now, I feel a little bit better," Atta Poku, 55, said of the three-bedroom townhouse in East Columbia that Congregations Concerned for the Homeless has arranged for him to rent."

• "Atta Poku's lawyers, Gerald M. Richman of Ellicott City and Scott C. Borison of Frederick, are awaiting word on two court actions they filed after their attempt to have the Court of Special Appeals declare the foreclosure illegal failed in May. In June, they asked the Maryland Court of Appeals to rule whether it was right for the Court of Special Appeals to dismiss Atta Poku's case on what the lawyers said was a technicality. They've also asked the Howard County Circuit Court to award Atta Poku the proceeds from the sale of his home, plus punitive damages. No ruling has been made in either case."

For more, see Displaced by foreclosure, family finds rental home (State program, Howard nonprofit, customers come to aid).

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