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A surprising increase in contract signing to purchase repossessed homes occurred last December indicating housing demand. The pending home resale index showed a 6.3 increase to 87.7, the first rising since August. But other sources say that the inventory of foreclosed homes actually caused a $3 trillion lost of home value in 2008.

The housing recession for the past two years has increased foreclosures to record levels as more and more families are struggling to make payments on properties that are decreasing in value. Despite these hard times, there is still something to be optimistic about.

As the housing market continues to fall due to falling home prices and home sales, and the flood of foreclosures, the government continues to come up of ways to address these problems.

The building of affordable housing for people with low income in San Diego County are affected by the increase in California foreclosures and lack of tax credit investments.

With the continuous flooding of foreclosures in the housing market, the need for government assistance is undeniable.

Efforts to add a stipulation in the economic stimulus bill supported by congressional Democrats that would permit bankruptcy judges to minimize mortgages as a possible solution to the foreclosure problem is being resisted by President-elect Obama and his advisers.

Preventing foreclosure may be one of President-elect Barack Obama's top domestic priorities, but he also has other housing-related concerns on his agenda too. Alleviating homeowner's taxes and acceding to the change of the mortgage-closing procedure are also in Obama's to do list.

A year of extra attention and effort failed the Congress in resolving the foreclosure crisis.

A U.S. House bill that would authorize bankruptcy judges to modify mortgage terms is not a good solution to the foreclosure problem, according to Glenn Boyd, top securities strategist of New York City-based Barclays Capital.

Barack Obama, who is just a few days away from being inaugurated as the 44th and the first African-American U.S. president, is facing his first big test in the Senate. Democratic and Republican senators have been debating whether to give him the second $350 billion of the Troubled Asset Relief Program fund for his own foreclosure prevention program.

Congress has been readying two foreclosure prevention bills to be presented to Barack Obama during his first working days as president in January.