New Tax Foreclosure Process Looks to Protect Homeowners
Over the past five years, the number of mortgage foreclosures filed per month in the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas has remained roughly the same, but there has been a dramatic increase in filings of a different type of foreclosure: municipal property tax foreclosures. Jonathan S. Sgro is a Skadden fellow at Community Legal Services in Philadelphia and Catherine M. Martin is a University of Virginia Powell fellow in legal services at Community Legal Services.