Attorney General supports mortgage foreclosure defense grants
Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi has secured from the settlement of a legal action a $1 million donation to The Florida Bar Foundation for the Florida Attorney General Mortgage Foreclosure Defense Funding Grant Program.
The funds will be distributed through the Foundation in the form of grants awarded to local legal aid organizations and will support attorney and paralegal positions devoted to providing free assistance to low- and moderate-income single-family occupant homeowners facing foreclosure. The grants will vary in size depending on the number of foreclosures experienced in a particular area of the state.
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The Florida Attorney General Mortgage Foreclosure Defense Funding Grant Program was begun in 2009 under then-Florida Attorney General Bill McCollum with $4 million from a 2008 settlement with Countrywide Financial. The initial funding supported two-year grants.
“We are grateful that Attorney General Pam Bondi recognizes and supports the Foundation’s effort to enable legal aid organizations to assist the thousands of low-income Floridians trying to hold onto their homes,” said Foundation President Michele Kane Cummings
“With its strong tradition of leadership as a funder of legal aid, the Foundation is well prepared to administer these funds so that they will do the most good.”