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FKD19124 
well lets not forget who caused the baking crisis of 2008 and tried to blame it on Bush.
Remember the "feel good" legislation that forced banks to make loans to people who could not afford them so
they could buy a home?
Yes, I remember Bush & GOP crammed through 40 initiatives to make sure low income people can get a loan. Thanks for reminding me. Feel good indeed. Or maybe "get re-elected" legislation is a better term.
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Bush's mission to get 5.5 million low income minorities mortgages when they would not otherwise qualify for them.
- Mobilizing the Private Sector: America's Homeownership Challenge
- Establish a national goal of at least 5.5 million new minority homeowners before the end of the decade.
- Challenge the private sector real estate and mortgage finance industries to dramatically increase their efforts to reduce the barriers to homeownership faced by minority families and to work with the nonprofit sector in a concerted effort to achieve this goal through national and local partnerships.
- Convene a White House Conference on Increasing Minority Homeownership, to highlight the homeownership barriers faced by minorities and develop proposed solutions.
- A substantial increase of at least $440 billion in the financial commitment made by the government-sponsored enterprises involved in the secondary mortgage market, specifically targeted toward the minority market;
- Twenty-five different local initiatives to be undertaken across the nation, geared toward eliminating the specific homeownership barriers faced by minority families in those communities;
- A commitment to raise $750 million in below-market-rate investments by 2007, which will work in collaboration with local homeownership initiatives and be targeted to heavily minority program areas;
- Pursuing strategic partnerships in 20 top housing markets between homebuilders, lenders, local officials, and community leaders to develop approaches that address the local challenges to building homes for minority families living in urban centers;
- Establishing of faith-based housing partnerships between the participants and at least 100 churches, mosques, synagogues, and other faith-based institutions;
- Aggressively developing new mortgage products so that conventional market alternatives are available to combat the predatory loan products that are disproportionately targeted to minorities;
- Creating new mortgage products to meet the unique needs of recent immigrants;
- Dramatically expanding financial education efforts for minorities, providing financial counseling to at least 380,000 minority families, and taking measures at the local level to reduce predatory lending; and
- Establishing multilingual, consumer-oriented internet Web sites designed to help minorities overcome barriers to homeownership, including creation of a central data bank of affordable housing programs made available to real estate agents when working with clients.
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Yeah, that whole thing about someone "trying to blame the banking crisis on bush"... wonder who the OP thought was really to blame?
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