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The great crusade

I wrote this in the spring of 2002. Add my voice to that of the econobloggers out there (like Krugman and Ritholtz) who say that yesterday’s big Times story on the Bush administration’s role in stoking the mortgage crisis made too much of too little. But as this editorial I wrote for City Limits magazine notes, the Bush crew did add some unique spins of its own to agenda already established by Clinton — namely, it pushed the quest for increased homeownership to even more tenuous extremes, like with that new program that encouraged families that paid the rent with Section 8 vouchers to use the government aid to buy a home instead. Just loony.

Monday, December 22nd, 2008 | Tags: Bush, Clinton, New York Times, Section 8
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