Broad coalition will identify funds available from federal foreclosure assistance legislation
Chief Financial Officer Alex Sink created a Financial Action Team (FACT Team) of stakeholder experts to identify the funds available to Florida from the Foreclosure Prevention Act of 2008 and to educate Floridians about how to take advantage of these resources.
Representing a number of financial and housing organizations in Florida, the FACT Team has one goal: to maximize Florida's share of the billions in available federal dollars to help Floridians weather the housing crisis.
Current FACT Team members and the associations they represent include:
- Obdulio Piedra, Financial Literacy Council, www.myfloridamoney.com
- Anthony DiMarco, Florida Bankers Association, www.floridabankers.com
- Mark Landreth, Florida Credit Union League, www.fcul.org
- David Westcott, Florida Housing Finance Corp., www.floridahousing.org
- Trey Goldman, Florida Association of Realtors, www.floridarealtors.org
- Alice Vickers, Florida Legal Services, www.floridalegal.org
- Dee Wood-Carper, Florida League of Cities, www.flcities.com
- John Smith, Florida Association of Counties, www.fl-counties.com
- Jim Brodie, Department of Veterans Affairs, www.floridavets.org
- Emelda Johnson, City of West Palm Beach, www.wpb.org
- Valerie Saunders, Florida Association of Mortgage Brokers, www.famb.org
- Jay Ralstin, Mortgage Bankers Association, www.mbaf.org
- Robert Weissert, Florida TaxWatch, www.floridataxwatchttp://www.floridataxwatch.orgh.org
- Charlie Fitzgerald, Financial Planning Assoc. of Florida, www.financialplanningflorida.org
- David Hart, Florida Home Builders Association, www.fhba.com
- Jaimie Ross, Florida Housing Coalition, www.flhousing.org
- Walter Dartland, Consumer Federation of America, www.consumerfed.org
- Melissa Joiner, Department of Community Affairs, www.dca.state.fl.us
- Tammy Teston, Department of Financial Services, www.MyFloridaCFO.com