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No Place Like Home: Keeping the American Dream Alive

PART SIX
Date: December 18, 2009.

Phyllis Caldwell

Part 1 The 6th and final installment of our special series, No Place Like Home: Keeping The American Dream Alive, takes a look at the administration's efforts to help the millions of American homeowners avoid foreclosure. We visit first with Phyllis Caldwell, head of the Treasury Department's Office of Homeownership Preservation.

Bruce Marks Mike Calhoun

Part 2 Then, we go to a convention center in New York where thousands of troubled homeowners turned out for a foreclosure seminar sponsored by Neighborhood Assistance Corporation of America (NACA). The group's director Bruce Marks and Mike Calhoun of the Center for Responsible Lending assess the Obama Administration's efforts so far. www.naca.com www.responsiblelending.org

PART FIVE
Date: October 30, 2009.

Alan Mallach Will Bradshaw

Part 2 Then, housing expert Alan Mallach, with the Brookings Institution, and Green Coast Enterprise's Will Bradshaw discuss how other groups are helping to revitalize and strengthen neighborhoods in New Orleans as well as those hit by economic disaster across the country. www.greencoastenterprises.com www.projecthomeagain.net

PART FOUR
Date: September 25, 2009.

Catalina Garza

No Place Like Home: Keeping the American Dream Alive We continue our special series, No Place Like Home: Keeping the American Dream Alive. Producer Jon Tkach profiles Catalina Garza who went from sharing one bedroom with her mother and sister to owning her very own 3-bedroom home with the help of Habitat for Humanity.

Holly Benson Stephen Seidel David J. Erickson

No Place Like Home: Keeping the American Dream Alive We delve deeper into innovations in affordable housing with Policy Director for Abode Communities Holly Benson, Habitat for Humanity's Urban Programs Director Stephen Seidel, and economic historian David J. Erickson, author of the new book, The Housing Policy Revolution: Networks and Neighborhoods. www.habitat.org www.abodecommunities.org www.urban.org/books/housingrevolution

PART THREE
Date: August 28, 2009.

Victoria Cavaliere

No Place Like Home We continue our special series, No Place Like Home: Keeping the American Dream Alive. Producer Victoria Cavaliere profiles affluent Westchester County New York, where officials made headlines this month by agreeing to build hundreds of affordable housing units and take steps to aggressively market them to Blacks and Latino.

Angela Glover Blackwell Andrew Spano

No Place Like Home Founder and CEO of Policy Link, Angela Glover Blackwell, and Westchester County Executive Andrew Spano discuss the settlement's significance for New York and beyond.

PART TWO
Date: July 24, 2009.

Lori Gay Kenneth Wade

No Place Like Home: Keeping the American Dream Alive We continue our special series, No Place Like Home: Keeping the American Dream Alive. Producer Leshelle Sargent profiles a first-time homebuyer who found a silver lining in the the housing bust. Afterwards, Lori Gay, the President of the Los Angeles Neighborhood Housing Services, and Kenneth Wade, CEO of NeighborWorks America discuss a broad range of housing programs available to prospective low-income homebuyers. www.aecf.org www.lanhs.org www.nw.org

PART ONE
Date: June 26, 2009.

Shaun Donovan

More Than Just Hope Shaun Donovan, Secretary of the US Department of Housing and Urban Development offers more than just hope but modes of help for those struggling in the wake of the mortgage crisis. www.hud.gov

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