You forget, or conveniently leave out, that there are anti-discrimination laws and it wouldn't take long before it became obvious that lenders were denying blacks based on race. Not saying it didn't happen, saying it's been awhile. Not the case now. If however a Black buyer doesn't have the means necessary to make a down payment he will be denied. The world has changed a lot since the real estate bubble burst. It's a lot tougher to get a loan these days. And granting millions of mortgages to unqualified buyers because of pressure put on the banks by Christopher Dodd and Barney Frank is what started the eventual bubble bursting. Again Democrats, who lambast banks and other corporations all the time, demonstrated a fundamental lack of knowledge about how markets work but they just want what they want, market collapses be damned.
Lol, I don’t understand this response.
One poster was claiming to know what redlining was in America. The poster says it was simply banks refusing to lend in high risk neighborhoods whatever that means and the federal government had no role in it.
I then detail how redlining was actually created by the US government housing policy through the fha, and how it systematically denied home ownership to black Americans, helped create residential racial segregation, and helped white Americans build wealth while denying it to black Americans, and the response I get is to say what I didn’t mention. What I am claimed not to have mentioned wasn’t the topic of my post.
this thing of comparing the past and the present is irrelevant and uninformed without doing reading on housing discrimination. Without reading about redlining cases from the past or the present, without looking up the banks being charged with redlining or racial discrimination or the studies that show housing discrimination, saying what does or doesn’t occur now in the US housing market without actually reading about the topic is just spouting uninformed garbage.
Please gain knowledge. Do some reading on these topics or not, but you are glaringly ignorant about the wide spread extent of housing discrimination in America.