Ray From Cleveland
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It was about far more than getting minorities to buy homes. Way more. Your head has been stuffed full of shit.You must be on drugs. I got a mortgage in 2004, and frankly, they massively checked out every debt I ever had. I know it absolutely HORRIFIES you that poor people couldn't be discriminated against if they had good credit histories and jobs... but the crisis was middle class white assholes buying overpriced McMansions and trying to flip them for a profit. They created a bubble and bubbles pop.
In fact, of the top 25 banks that FAILED, only one made CRA loans.
The CRA wasn't the problem here. The banks were.
The problem is you don't know the difference between the CRA and the lowering of standards to get more minorities to buy homes.
Tell me something. When you saw all those white middle class neighbors foreclosing in your housing development, did you say to yourself, "Gee, I had no idea Biff was a negro!"
It spread into other things, but the original idea was because of minority ownership. Most of them had bad credit and constantly complained to the Democrats they were being discriminated against. As we all know, banks don't discriminate by race, they discriminate based on credit history, job history and ability to repay.
Because many of them didn't have the history of whites, there was only one way to get these people into homes, and that was to lower the standards which they did.