Bring Philadelphia Foreclosure Diversion Program To Chicago, Say City, Cook County Officials

In Chicago, Illinois, Chicago Defender reports:

• A new foreclosure program in Philadelphia has been so successful there that Cook County Clerk of the Circuit Court Dorothy Brown said the county should duplicate to slow the rash of foreclosures here.

• Brown and other elected officials joined Action Now, a Chicago housing non-profit organization, at a Tuesday news conference to propose a local version of the Philadelphia Residential Mortgage Foreclosure Diversion Pilot Program , a foreclosure diversion program that has proven successful in East Coast city.

For more, see City, county leaders look to bring Philly foreclosure program to Chicago area homeowners.

See also, WBBM-780 AM: Cook County Judges Urged To Decrease Foreclosures (Cook County judges are being called upon to implement a plan that's designed to decrease foreclosures. The plan is modeled after a program in Philadelphia).

Go here for a copy of the foreclosure diversion program, Joint General Court Regulation No. 2008-01, Court of Common Pleas of Philadelphia County.