The original content of Democracy Now! Headlines appears under the Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 3.0 License (United States). For more, including their other shows and media, visit www.democracynow.org. April 16, 2009 Potential Foreclosures Rise 24% ------------------------------- And in housing news, new figures show the number of Americans facing the loss of their homes grew 24 percent in the first three months of this year. According to Realty Trac, more than 800,000 homes received at least one foreclosure-related notice from January through March. .