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What’s Next for the CRA?

By | 01.18.10 | 6:00 am

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An ambitious plan to update the Carter-era Community Reinvestment Act that supporters hope to see signed into law in 2010 comes amid charges that this legislation was responsible for nothing less than the subprime crisis and the resulting collapse of the residential real estate market.

The plan, sponsored by More…

Home Ownership Is Not a Dirty Word

By | 10.24.08 | 9:19 am

At Economist’s View, Mark Thoma brings up a subject no one seems to want to talk about anymore – helping people with modest incomes buy homes.

In the housing crisis, poor people — of all the likely suspects — are playing the role of scapegoats. Conservatives support the idea More…

Blaming the Wrong Borrowers

By | 10.01.08 | 8:42 am

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…