Sunday, October 17, 2010

GUILTY

Barbarian at the Gate
1998: Sec. Cuomo pushes 'affirmative action' mortgage loan policy


smoking gun Yet more video evidence that the Clinton Administration was the nexus for the subprime mortgae failure that's brought this nation to its knees. As reward for his part in the scheme, Cuomo thinks he should  be governor of New York.
President Bill Clinton's Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Andrew Cuomo answered questions in 1998 at a press conference regarding HUD policy that would ensure that banks could not discriminate against low-income minorities when considering individuals from this group for housing loans.

    "To take a greater risk on these mortgages...yes. To give families mortgages they who they would not have given otherwise?...yes."

Mr. Cuomo is then asked if this people in this group could have gotten the loans at all in the first place. In a telling response, he answers:

    "They would not have qualified, but for this affirmative action on the part of the bank...yes."

Mr. Cuomo then confirms for a reporter that the affirmative action is indeed for minorities and that he expects the default rate to be higher than the rest of the portfolio:

    "It is...by income it is mostly by minorities...yes.

    With the $2.1 billion lending that amount in mortgages which will be a higher risk and I'm sure there will be a higher default rate on those mortgages than the rest of the portfolio."
(WaTimes)

1 comment:

JimB said...

New York is doomed

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