ProPublica: Documents suggest the government coddled mortgage servicers in its flagship foreclosure prevention program despite frequent and serious errors.

ProPublica: Many homeowners have been granted a hard-fought mortgage modification only to have their mortgage company effectively pull a bait and switch. The problems range from homeowners being hit with unexpected extra charges to the bank simply ignoring the signed agreement.

ProPublica: A case in Florida shows how servicers can invoke waivers to smooth the way to foreclosure — even when servicer error is the apparent cause of default.

ProPublica: Hosts of federal agencies and regulators, along with the 50 state attorneys general, are hard at work on laying out new rules for banks and mortgage servicers. But attempts to reform this process have failed before. Will banks abusing the system be held accountable?

ProPublica: Millions of homeowners have been caught in the dysfunctional machinery of the loan servicing industry.

ProPublica: Some Democrats now say Obama’s administration undermined efforts to allow bankruptcy judges to lower home interest rates.

ProPublica: The Obama administration’s $75 billion foreclosure prevention program has been weakened, perhaps fatally, by lax oversight and a posture of cooperation — rather than enforcement — with the nation’s biggest banks. (Updated Feb. 17, 2011.)