http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2009/06/time_we_talked.html

This report from June 2009 calls for federal government to play an active role in promoting mandatory foreclosure mediation programs across the country. The authors review the foreclosure mediation programs currently in place in Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Florida and California. Based on their analysis of these programs, the authors then offer a list of best practices for foreclosure mediation. They encourage the federal government to direct more funding toward mandatory mediation programs at the state and local levels, and to require mediation for all federally-backed mortgages facing foreclosure, among other suggestions. The Center for American Progress, the publishers of this report, is a liberal think-tank in Washington, D.C.