Lack of Equity Slows Federal Aid Housing Program

A federal program to allow borrowers with little or no equity in their homes to refinance is struggling to gain traction, according to government data released Tuesday, showing that only 93,070 borrowers have been helped since the effort was launched in April.

The program has encountered difficulties that government regulators had not expected, such as the limited capacity of lenders to carry it out and the large proportion of borrowers who could not initially qualify because their ...