Wow! That is the word for this epic failure. The 300 billion dollar Hope For Homeowners program the government touted as being the savior for 400,000 families has their results in.

They saved 1 homeowner out of the 752 applications,

1 homeowner saved.

Now what does that tell you?

• That the government is clueless on helping the individual? or
• That the people recognize that the government is clueless and only 752 people applied?

What a classic train wreck.

In the five months since it has been in effect, HOPE has helped exactly one homeowner to avoid foreclosure. This despite Congress having made $300 billion available to back these loans and estimating that the program would benefit as many as 400,000 families.

“As it stands now, we’ve only gotten 752 applications,” said Federal Housing Authority spokesman Brian Sullivan. “And only insured one loan. Needless to say, the program isn’t working terribly well.”

Rep. Michael Castle (R – Del.), who sits on the House Financial Services Committee, agreed, calling HOPE “one of the most failed programs we’ve had in a long time.” via CNN Money.

But folks, don’t worry. It is a government program so instead of scrapping it and putting the 300 billion back into the general fund Congress is going to overhaul the program.

Maybe they can save 2 people this time for a couple of billion in wasted overhead…

Hattip to Tom Vanderwall for finding this article via Twitter

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