Massachusetts Foreclosed Homes

Coakley Scores A+ For Foreclosure Crisis Response

Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley has been recognized by the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) for her office’s work in responding to the foreclosure crisis.

The group gave the Commonwealth's AG an A+ grade. Of the 51 attorneys general analyzed, only five received an A+ grade.

Connecticut's attorney general, Richard Blumenthal, also received an A+ grade. Rhode Island's AG, Patrick Lynch received a C- while New Hampshire's Kelly Ayotte had an "incomplete" grade. Maine's Steve Rowe received a F grade, and Vermont's AG, William Sorrell, also landed a F grade.

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Foreclosures To Slow Manchester-Nashua Economy

A report prepared for the United States Conference of Mayors predicts that the foreclosure crisis in the Manchester-Nashua New Hampshire area will decrease economic growth in 2008 by 1.4 percent in that metropolitan area, the Telegram, Nashua's newspaper, reported November 29, 2007. 

Only five other metropolitan areas were predicted to have a bigger reduction in economic growth. The survey covered 276 metropolitan areas. The Manchester-Nashua area's economy still is expected to grow 2.2 percent. A majority of the expected hardest hit areas are in California or Florida, where the housing market has been mercilessly pummeled.

Not everyone agrees with the report.

"'I have one word for that: nonsense,' said Peter Francese, director of demographic forecasting for the New England Economic Partnership in Waltham, Mass.

"'The idea that Manchester (and Nashua) ranks up there with California and Florida and Michigan metros is just silly,' Francese said."

At No. 6, the Manchester-Nashua, NH area is the only New England area in the 40 worst-hit regions; Bangor, Maine is 42nd, and Boston is 44th.

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