With 1.5 million foreclosures last year and 1.2 million already in the first six months of this year, the foreclosure crisis is accelerating, she noted.
The FDIC has rolled out a plan to help refinance more than 1,200 delinquent IndyMac Bank borrowers into 30- year mortgages with interest rates capped at 5.9 percent. The program is meant to be a loan-modification model for the industry.
U.S. foreclosure filings rose to a record in August, climbing 27 percent from a year earlier as falling prices made it more difficult to sell or refinance homes, RealtyTrac Inc., an Irvine, Calif.-based seller of foreclosure data, said last week.