Several homes featured on ABC's reality show Extreme Makeover: Home Edition have either been foreclosed on, or are in danger of foreclosure. In early-December 2009 the Wofford family, including widower Brian Wofford and his children, faced foreclosure on their Encinitas, California home. In an interview with a local news station, Wofford explained, "A lot of people think when you get the house, you get the mortgage. Well, you don't."http://tv.yahoo.com/blog/another-extreme-makeover-home-edition-family-facing-foreclosure--834

At least four other families featured on Extreme Makeover: Home Edition have lost their homes or were forced to sell it because they couldn't afford the mortgage.http://www.findingdulcinea.com/news/Americas/2009/June/With-Extreme-Makeover-Homes--Some-Get-Foreclosure-Instead-of-Happy-Ending.html. The Harpers, of Atlanta, Georgia, faced foreclosure in 2008. The family had to take out a $450,000 loan from their home's equity, a loan they really couldn't afford.http://tv.yahoo.com/blog/another-extreme-makeover-home-edition-family-facing-foreclosure--834

Milton and Patricia Harper received a home as a gift from ABC's Extreme Makeover: Home Edition show, which aims to provide needy families with comfortable housing. The Harpers decided to use the house as collateral for a loan for a construction business that failed.MSNBC: ‘Extreme Makeover’ house faces foreclosure

The Vardon family of Oak Park, Michigan, whose home was rehabilitated on the television show, were in danger of losing their home due to foreclosure in December 2008.WFTS-TV: 'extreme Makeover' Tv Family Faces Home Foreclosure (December 9, 2008)

Community activist Sadie Holmes is a former drug addict whose house was built by Extreme Makeover in 2006. Holmes, who said she pays well over $6000 in property taxes on the home annually, claims she is under a "mountain of debt."New York Post: Home Crashes Again (October 6, 2008)