Homeownership Preservation Foundation Unveils Enhanced Website

July 28, 2011

WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Homeownership Preservation Foundation (HPF), an independent national nonprofit dedicated to helping distressed homeowners navigate financial challenges and avoid mortgage foreclosure through its Homeowner’s HOPE™ Hotline at 888-995-HOPE™, today unveiled its redesigned website at www.995hope.org. In addition to new graphic design elements, HPF's newly revised website features expanded content in several sections to help homeowners more effectively and efficiently access timely, reliable, and unbiased information that could help them better manage their finances and, in the case of individuals facing foreclosure, to stay in their homes. New functionality will enable HPF to better track and measure changing homeowner sentiment on news, economic trends, and national policy issues that affect their financial lives. Content available to homeowners via HPF's website mirrors the information available to consumers by phone every day, around the clock, via HPF's Homeowner’s HOPE™ Hotline at 888-995-HOPE™, including: how HPF's HUD-approved counselors can help homeowners facing foreclosure, step-by-step details on the foreclosure process, overview of potential alternative lender solutions, a glossary of mortgage- and foreclosure-related terms to help homeowners "speak" their lender's language, as well as details on how to avoid mortgage scams and government mortgage relief programs. Housing- and foreclosure-related news from third-party sources such as national newspapers is also available. About the Homeownership Preservation Foundation The Homeownership Preservation Foundation (HPF) is an independent national nonprofit dedicated to helping distressed homeowners navigate financial challenges and avoid mortgage foreclosure. HPF guides consumers onto the path of sustainable homeownership and develops innovative solutions to preserve and expand homeownership. Through its Homeowner’s HOPE™ Hotline, 888-995-HOPE™, HPF provides comprehensive financial education and confidential foreclosure prevention counseling for FREE, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year, in over 170 languages. Since 2007, HPF has served more than five million distressed homeowners, an average of 5,500 each weekday, who depend upon HPF as a trusted, neutral source of information and assistance. For more information about the Homeownership Preservation Foundation or the Homeowner’s HOPE™ Hotline, please visit www.995hope.org.

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