On a hot summer evening, two second-year law students are trudging through the leafy neighborhoods of suburban Prince George’s County, knocking on doors. Toting stacks of fliers, the young women are going house to house, making sure that delinquent homeowners know about the state’s mortgage ... Read More about Mediation efforts fail to stem foreclosure tide

Louise Golden, 79, recently stood at the front door of her tidy brick split-level in Lanham, still shocked to hear the terms of the refinancing agreement she and her now-deceased husband, Stanley, signed in 2006. “I thought it was a fixed-rate mortgage,” said Golden. “I didn’t know what a ... Read More about Program to deter foreclosures in Maryland is less successful than anticipated