forbearance

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The decline will happen in stages, as the pressure builds from mortgage defaults, loan modifications and forbearance by property owners and lenders.

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The company offers forbearance for economic hardships, but Luciano used up what was available when her son, now 6 years old, was born prematurely and she couldn’t work full time.

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Sometimes people in intermediary positions mistakenly believe that stoic forbearance is the best way to shelter people under them, when it actually just makes them powerless witnesses.

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We can embrace the need for personal responsibility, even as we honor the need for restraint and forbearance when our fragile fellow citizens fall short of our own exacting standards.

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The increased supply will be generated, in part, from new housing construction as well as from the end of forbearance for struggling mortgage payers, a situation that will cause some homeowners to sell.

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