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<blockquote data-quote="Buddybrown" data-source="post: 1030757" data-attributes="member: 30291"><p>Both parties are to blame. Clinton began the process of forcing low mortgage underwriting standards, Bush continued and enhanced it.</p><p></p><p>The Bush Hangover</p><p>What got us into this mess...and what can get us out. </p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/bush-hangover_652402.html" target="_blank">http://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/bush-hangover_652402.html</a></p><p></p><p>Beginning in the mid-1990s, under the grandiose title “The National Homeownership Strategy: Partners in the American Dream,” the Clinton administration used the “affordable housing goals” that Congress had imposed on Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to increase the availability of mortgage credit to low-income borrowers. It also loosened the standards under the Community Reinvestment Act to pull insured depository institutions further into the low-income lending program.</p><p><a href="http://www.businessweek.com/the_thread/hotproperty/archives/2008/02/clintons_drive.htmlBill" target="_blank"></a></p><p><a href="http://www.businessweek.com/the_thread/hotproperty/archives/2008/02/clintons_drive.htmlBill" target="_blank">http://www.businessweek.com/the_thread/hotproperty/archives/2008/02/clintons_drive.htmlBill</a> </p><p></p><p>Clinton's drive to increase homeownership went way too far </p><p></p><p>Add President Clinton to the long list of people who deserve a share of the blame for the housing bubble and bust. A recently re-exposed document shows that his administration went to ridiculous lengths to increase the national homeownership rate. </p><p></p><p>It promoted paper-thin downpayments and pushed for ways to get lenders to give mortgage loans to first-time buyers with shaky financing and incomes. It’s clear now that the erosion of lending standards pushed prices up by increasing demand, and later led to waves of defaults by people who never should have bought a home in the first place.</p><p></p><p>President Bush continued the practices because they dovetailed with his Ownership Society goals, and of course Congress was strongly behind the push. But Clinton and his administration must shoulder some of the blame.</p><p></p><p>File:National Homeownership Strategy.pdf <a href="https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/wiki/File:National_Homeownership_Strategy.pdf" target="_blank">https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/wiki/File:National_Homeownership_Strategy.pdf</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Buddybrown, post: 1030757, member: 30291"] Both parties are to blame. Clinton began the process of forcing low mortgage underwriting standards, Bush continued and enhanced it. The Bush Hangover What got us into this mess...and what can get us out. [URL]http://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/bush-hangover_652402.html[/URL] Beginning in the mid-1990s, under the grandiose title “The National Homeownership Strategy: Partners in the American Dream,” the Clinton administration used the “affordable housing goals” that Congress had imposed on Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to increase the availability of mortgage credit to low-income borrowers. It also loosened the standards under the Community Reinvestment Act to pull insured depository institutions further into the low-income lending program. [URL="http://www.businessweek.com/the_thread/hotproperty/archives/2008/02/clintons_drive.htmlBill"] http://www.businessweek.com/the_thread/hotproperty/archives/2008/02/clintons_drive.htmlBill[/URL] Clinton's drive to increase homeownership went way too far Add President Clinton to the long list of people who deserve a share of the blame for the housing bubble and bust. A recently re-exposed document shows that his administration went to ridiculous lengths to increase the national homeownership rate. It promoted paper-thin downpayments and pushed for ways to get lenders to give mortgage loans to first-time buyers with shaky financing and incomes. It’s clear now that the erosion of lending standards pushed prices up by increasing demand, and later led to waves of defaults by people who never should have bought a home in the first place. President Bush continued the practices because they dovetailed with his Ownership Society goals, and of course Congress was strongly behind the push. But Clinton and his administration must shoulder some of the blame. File:National Homeownership Strategy.pdf [URL]https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/wiki/File:National_Homeownership_Strategy.pdf[/URL] [/QUOTE]
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