Using ACORN To Misrepresent the Community Reinvestment Act, Once Again

When is this ever going to end? Conservative lawmakers are seizing on ACORN’s troubles to once again go after the Community Reinvestment Act, an anti-redlining law that somehow became a scapegoat for the housing crisis last year, the AP reports.

The 1977 Community Reinvestment Act was intended to end

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Blaming the Wrong Borrowers

Media Matters weighs in on the topic we wrote about Tuesday on TWI — the fact that blaming low-income and minority borrowers for the housing crisis is picking up speed as reason for the cause of the housing crisis.

Conservatives are blaming the Community Reinvestment Act, an anti-redlining More…