Brooklyn courts are speeding through hundreds of foreclosure cases, skipping a crucial step meant to ensure low-income homeowners have a lawyer to help work out a settlement before losing their valuable properties, according to a class-action lawsuit.
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“The court just skips that step and moves right along with the case,” Ding said. “And so the result is most of these folks who can't afford a lawyer go through the entire process without a lawyer and are much more likely to lose their homes to a foreclosure that might have been avoidable if they had a lawyer.”
“Courts press ahead with the proceedings, leaving the homeowners to fend for themselves as they face the loss of their homes,” the lawsuit states.
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