>>>...a modest house that you OWN though Marcia - and it would be nice if more people had such an opportunity.
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>>>Owning a home is not a right. I worked hard all of my life, never got into debt, and saved my money. That is why I own my own home. Wasn't it the NINJA (No Income No Job No Assets) loans that caused the great recession? You want to go back to those days?
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>>No - I want to go back to where if you have a full time job you can actually afford to buy a house. That is not the case right now. It's the corporate greed and rolled back regulations that caused the housing bubble bust.
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>That last sentence is hardly a complete picture of what caused the issue.

True - its a lot more complicated than that - but it for sure played a HUGE role in it. Had the banks not been making bad loans to begin with none of this would of happened.