A mob of potential buyers convened in New York on Sunday to bid on foreclosed homes at below-market prices.

There was no mathematical elegance to the mortgage-backed securities that helped lead to the market crash of recent months. In these deals, interest and principal payments from mortgages were bundled into different packages called tranches, each with different risks and interest rates.

The anti-foreclosure plan will make mortgage indebtedness more manageable, but ultimately the debt itself needs to be greatly reduced.

Rick E. Rockwell is part of a group who have been out of work for so long that they are depending on a second emergency extension of unemployment insurance.

To the Editor:.

When seeking culprits in the foreclosure crisis, we shouldn’t ignore the regulators and affordable-housing advocates who pushed lenders to make loans in low-income neighborhoods.

The loan giant said it would sign new leases with renters in foreclosed properties, aiding those who face eviction.

The loan giant said it would sign new leases with renters in foreclosed properties, aiding those who face eviction.

The loan giant said it would sign new leases with renters in foreclosed properties, aiding those who faced eviction.

A report criticized the administration for a lack of strategy and challenged its reluctance to help reduce foreclosures.