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2021-07-07 Home Front: Politix

Biden's New Dilemma: How To Slash Housing Costs For Low-Income Borrowers

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Posted by Slavilet Chirt2694 2021-07-07 00:00|| || Front Page|| [7 views ] Top

#1 Can you say 'housing bubble'?

Posted by Procopius2k 2021-07-07 07:19|| 2021-07-07 07:19|| Front Page Top

#2 Smeggin' hell! Didn't we just do this? It does not end well. OK, it ends well for some very specific parties.

At least we will get some happy headlines: Under the Joe Biden Administration, first-time home ownership has improved x-billion percent.
And no more mean tweets!

Posted by SteveS 2021-07-07 07:59|| 2021-07-07 07:59|| Front Page Top

#3 Sounds like the sub-prime debacle prior to the run up to the economy crash of 2008. I was talking to a financial guy yesterday and asked him about housing prices escalating so rapidly. He thought it was a bubble that would burst at some point. The difference is that the many of today's purchasers are not necessarily low-income purchasers who may end up defaulting.

Posted by JohnQC 2021-07-07 08:57|| 2021-07-07 08:57|| Front Page Top

#4 "Biden"

Posted by swksvolFF 2021-07-07 11:06|| 2021-07-07 11:06|| Front Page Top

#5 Because wage and price controls always work so well.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2021-07-07 12:27|| 2021-07-07 12:27|| Front Page Top

#6 “Their job is not risk elimination,” he said. “It’s risk management.:

Socializing the inevitable losses by any other name. Some people never, ever learn.

Posted by Raj 2021-07-07 14:46|| 2021-07-07 14:46|| Front Page Top

Posted by Shanter Gray2384 2021-07-07 15:08|| 2021-07-07 15:08|| Front Page Top

#8 Subsidies for US home buyers. Use the money they want to sent Quatamala, Mexico, etc..

Posted by Blackbeard Barnsmell6454 2021-07-07 15:34|| 2021-07-07 15:34|| Front Page Top

#9 Interesting charts there, Shanter Gray2384.

Posted by Raj 2021-07-07 16:54|| 2021-07-07 16:54|| Front Page Top

#10 Democrat solution for every single thing people complain about, spend taxpayers money, more restrictive rules and hire their allies to administer it in programs without end.

Posted by NoMoreBS 2021-07-07 18:19|| 2021-07-07 18:19|| Front Page Top

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