Faun
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Your opinion is noted and dismissed due to lack of evidence. The NBER stated the CRA led to riskier lending among CRA loans. It said nothing about "creating an environment."Sadly, you're ineducable. While the CRA may have led to riskier lending, it did not cause the crisis. Greed and opportunity did.Call Sign Chaos, post: 17824346Bush didn't create the conditions that led to the financial market crashing that would be the democrats and the community reinvestment act.
That is a highly opiniated lie, based on very little understanding
Liar.
But a new study by the respected National Bureau of Economic Research finds, “Yes, it did. We find that adherence to that act led to riskier lending by banks.”
Added NBER: “There is a clear pattern of increased defaults for loans made by these banks in quarters around the (CRA) exam. Moreover, the effects are larger for loans made within CRA tracts,” or predominantly low-income and minority areas.
To satisfy CRA examiners, “flexible” lending by large banks rose an average 5% and those loans defaulted about 15% more often, the 43-page study found.
The strongest link between CRA lending and defaults took place in the runup to the crisis — 2004 to 2006 — when banks rapidly sold CRA mortgages for securitization by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and Wall Street.
CRA regulations are at the core of Fannie’s and Freddie’s so-called affordable housing mission. In the early 1990s, a Democrat Congress gave HUD the authority to set and enforce (through fines) CRA-grade loan quotas at Fannie and Freddie.
It passed a law requiring the government-backed agencies to “assist insured depository institutions to meet their obligations under the (CRA).” The goal was to help banks meet lending quotas by buying their CRA loans.
But they had to loosen underwriting standards to do it. And that’s what they did.
New Study Finds Democrats Fully to Blame for Subprime Mortgage Crisis that Caused 2008 Financial Disaster
The Federal Reserve reported that only 6 percent of high cost subprime loans made to low- and moderate- income borrowers were originated by lenders covered by the CRA. The overwhelming majority were made by mortgage bankers and brokers not covered by the law.
Speculators, Not CRA, Behind Foreclosures in Black Neighborhoods
The CRA created the environment.
Greed and opportunity caused the crisis.