[lbo-talk] [Pen-l] Community Reinvestment Act at fault -- NOT

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Wed Oct 8 06:37:25 PDT 2008


On Oct 8, 2008, at 12:30 AM, Shane Taylor wrote:


> How much blame goes to them for the gutting of lending standards? My
> impression was that the primary rationale for slashing standards was
> to jack-up the volume of mortgages.

The Clinton admin encouraged 0-5% downpayment house purchases.

Doug



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