New Law Blogs

Valentine's Day may have already passed, but we're not letting that stop us from matching people up! Yesterday, we rolled out our home loan modification matchmaker, which partners homeowners having difficulties obtaining a loan modification with local journalists who can share their stories, investigate the problems they're having with the program and maybe even prompt some resolution. In the past 24 hours, we've had 100 reporters sign up and we just finished matching half of them with one or more homeowners. If you're participating in the project, you'll meet your match tomorrow morning.

So far, journalists from The Wall Street Journal, Chicago Tribune, Baltimore Sun, Philadelphia Inquirer, New York Daily News, Village Voice, Hartford Courant, Star-Ledger in Newark, Detroit Free Press, Seattle Times, Colorado Public Radio and NBC's “Today” Show have joined the project. And journalism students from U.C. Berkeley, New York University and City University of New York have joined as well. Thirteen journalists from California will soon get their matches by e-mail. And seven of the 16 journalists from New York who signed up got matches (don't worry New Yorkers, we'll find people for the rest of you). We still have a few homeowners in Indiana, Nevada, Kentucky and Montana on the lookout for journalists.

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