In a statement on her website, Harris blamed the racial gap in home ownership on redlining — banks’ historical practice of denying loans to buyers within certain geographic areas — and on the G.I. Bill, which disproportionately benefited white veterans.
She also blamed the Great Recession — though without citing any particular discriminatory action:
Black and minority families were also disproportionately impacted by the subprime mortgage crisis and the subsequent Great Recession. Throughout the subprime market, Black borrowers were subjected to higher cost and higher risk loans than white borrowers, even when both had similar levels of creditworthiness. During the years of recovery, 2009-2011, the wealth gap between white households and households of color widened in part due to housing-market weakness.
Previously, President George W. Bush had made increased homeownership by black and Hispanic Americans a priority. In 2002, he declared: “Too many American families, too many minorities do not own a home. There is a home ownership gap in America. The difference between Anglo America and African American and Hispanic home ownership is too big. And we’ve got to focus the attention on this nation to address this.”
Home ownership among minorities did increase — until the subprime mortgage crash. Critics blamed Bush’s aggressive drive for home ownership for the financial crisis. In an article titled, “Bush drive for home ownership fueled housing bubble,” the New York Times wrote in December 2008:
From his earliest days in office, Bush paired his belief that Americans do best when they own their own homes with his conviction that markets do best when left alone. Bush pushed hard to expand home ownership, especially among minority groups, an initiative that dovetailed with both his ambition to expand Republican appeal and the business interests of some of his biggest donors. But his housing policies and hands-off approach to regulation encouraged lax lending standards.
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doesn’t the stupid bitch know that the sate which she is from in in a MAJOR financial crisis-shit for brains demorat.
@MOS #8541:
No, Kamala (Willie Brown’s whore) is doing what Democrats do the best; pit one race against another. If elected, her administration would be like Obama on steroids.
There are about 33 million blacks in the USA.
Kamala promises to divvy up $100,000,000,000 (100 BILLION) to blacks to buy homes.
It comes to $25,000 per family if only 4,000 families are assisted!
And that is if 100% of the money passes thru the gov’t machine without one penny being eaten up in wages for federal employees!
But, that’s never the case.
Her “program” wouldn’t help but a very few black patrons of hers, both in and out of gov’t.
And the kicker is that this only helps with closing costs and some of the down payment.
It would be up to the black family to keep up monthly payments or be put out on the street!
One your dime, folks!
Bush didn’t create the Community Reinvestment Act and he did try to regulate it… too little too late.
If Kumallover Harris wants minorities to afford a home, she should support Trump and his economic policies; they are getting better jobs and economic opportunity. But she’s too socialistic to admit it.