A Workout Plan

Just for the record, here is one plan put forward by a couple of lawyerly individuals in the New York Times.

I like the community based aspect of this one. My thoughts on this are for agencies at Hud or Treasury to work with existing local-community based non-profits, such as Habitat and others, to provide funding and/or guarantees for private buyouts and lease-backs for those still able to make a reasonable, market-adjusted, mortgage or rent payment. Lease-back might not be the technically correct term; just so I'm clear, private investors, local non-profits, and not the federal government would be the purchasers; the original homeowner could stay on the mortgage, and in the home, under the new terms, or be provided a rent-to-own provision if they want.