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They Warned Us About the Mortgage Crisis

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Warnings by state and city officials that were ignored by federal agencies and their officials. Efforts to protect homeowners from oppressive lending were thwarted by federal officials when state attorney generals took up the issue in Washington DC. Not a pretty picture and says a lot about what went on in that period when federal officials were too close to lenders way of seeing things or ideologically blind because lenders played the deregulation music to perfection.

The homeowner lending boom pushed by unscruplous elements turns out to be a scourge for minorities.

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HUD Sec. Shaun Donovan calls the subprime lending a scourge for minorities, as foreclosures are hitting the minority neighborhoods the hardest. It may even widen the disparity in incomes between minorities and whites as the middle class black homeowners in places like New York State are losing ground.

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