President Barack Obama was a pioneering contributor to the national subprime real estate bubble, and roughly half of the 186 African-American clients in his landmark 1995 mortgage discrimination lawsuit against Citibank have since gone bankrupt or received foreclosure notices.
As few as 19 of those 186 clients still own homes with clean credit ratings, following a decade in which Obama and other progressives pushed banks to provide mortgages to poor African Americans.
Monday, September 03, 2012
Obama pushed banks to give subprime loans to Chicago blacks | The Daily Caller
Obama pushed banks to give subprime loans to Chicago blacks | The Daily Caller
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