The toolkit

Everything in one place · grab, print, share.

Every document, checklist, script, and shareable on this site, collected here so you can find it in one stop, whether you have a foreclosure letter in hand, a story to file, or a phone and twenty seconds.

If this is happening to you

You may have heard: “they were offered help and refused it” →

Start here · for families

You have more time and more rights than the letters make it sound. Start with free, vetted help, and don’t sign anything that waives your rights without advice.

Printable checklist First 72 Hours The one-page action plan for the moment a notice arrives. What to do, who to call, what to save. Print it and keep it by the phone. Open & print → Free, vetted help Get Help HUD-approved housing counselors and state legal-aid centers. The specialists who can act on your case, at no cost. Where to start, and what to ask. Find help → If you got a letter Rebuttal Index “Chose not to accept”? “Offered and declined”? The standard lines families keep hearing, fact-checked against the rule text, with the question to ask back. Read the record → Before you post Share Safely How to tell your story without exposing case numbers, addresses, or anyone who hasn’t consented. A short guide for families and supporters. Read the guide →

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For reporters, offices & advocates

Every claim traces to a citation. Print the brief, take the asks to a member office, or work straight from the source library.

Printable brief One-Pager The whole case on a single printable page, what happened, the numbers, the fix, and the asks. For a hearing, a meeting, or a reporter’s desk. Open & print → Press kit For Reporters Press contact, response expectations, downloads, deep links, and interview ground rules, everything a newsroom needs to run the story. Open the kit → Scripts & asks Take Action The six asks, no new appropriation, the 20-second phone script, and what each audience (offices, committees, VSOs, neighbors) can do. See the asks → Source library Data & Methods Every claim, source, date, content label, and limitation, the full filterable library behind every number on this site. Check the sources →

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Sharing the record is how families still standing in line find out they’re not alone. Everything here is built text-first, so it holds up when it’s quoted.

News & Record The dated, source-linked trail of everything that has happened. The timeline you can link to directly. Shareable cards Per-entry shareables built fresh from the Rebuttal Index text. Each carries the site URL and a source line. Text first, graphics second.

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Sixty-second video script

A one-minute script you can read to camera, written for someone hearing about this for the first time.

Carried forward from the earlier version of this site, July 26, 2026.

Quick thing you need to know. More than 15,000 veteran families have lost their homes in the past year. Here's what happened. During COVID, veterans were told to use forbearance, pause their mortgage payments. When forbearance ended, the VA had a partial claim program that let them catch up at their original rate. Then the VA cancelled it without notice. FHA, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac all kept their programs. Only the VA pulled the rug. So the VA built a replacement called VASP. It worked. 17,000 families enrolled. Then the VA killed that too. May 2025. No replacement ready. That's the second time veteran families had a rescue program cancelled out from under them without notice. Congress saw the pattern, two administrations had now done this to veterans, so they passed a permanent fix, H.R. 1815, with unanimous bipartisan support. Every Republican, every Democrat. Signed into law July 2025. That was almost a year ago. The VA still hasn't implemented it. New ETA: June 2026. So now, instead of cancelling a program, the VA is just stalling, not implementing the law, not stopping the foreclosures they have the legal authority to stop. 90,000 more veteran families are in foreclosure right now. 160,000+ total impacted. This isn't left vs. right. Both administrations contributed. Congress already fixed the law. The VA is the bottleneck. Call (202) 224-3121 and tell your representative to demand the VA pause all veteran foreclosures and evictions until the program is live.

Thirty-second version

The same explanation cut to thirty seconds for a short-form video.

Carried forward from the earlier version of this site, July 26, 2026.

The VA has cancelled the mortgage safety net for veteran families twice, first the COVID partial claim program, then VASP. Every other federal mortgage system kept theirs. FHA, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac. They all still have partial claims. Only the VA has nothing. Congress passed a permanent fix with every Republican and every Democrat voting yes. That was almost a year ago. The VA still hasn't implemented it. 15,000+ families already lost their homes. 90,000 more are in foreclosure right now. Call (202) 224-3121.

The toolkit

If this is happening to you

The record, built to be checked

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Sixty-second video script

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