Democrats on path to repeat housing disaster

[Dan40]

Originally Posted by cobra bill

The Community Reinvestment Act is intended to encourage depository institutions to help meet the credit needs of the communities in which they operate, including low- and moderate-income neighborhoods, consistent with safe and sound operations. It was enacted by the Congress in 1977 (12 U.S.C. 2901) and is implemented by Regulation BB (12 CFR 228). The regulation was substantially revised in May 1995, and was most recently amended in August 2005.
Evaluation of CRA Performance
The CRA requires that each depository institution's record in helping meet the credit needs of its entire community be evaluated periodically. That record is taken into account in considering an institution's application for deposit facilities.

Neither the CRA nor its implementing regulation gives specific criteria for rating the performance of depository institutions. Rather, the law indicates that the evaluation process should accommodate an institution's individual circumstances. Nor does the law require institutions to make high-risk loans that jeopardize their safety. To the contrary, the law makes it clear that an institution's CRA activities should be undertaken in a safe and sound manner.

CRA examinations are conducted by the federal agencies that are responsible for supervising depository institutions. Information on this page is related to depository institutions that are examined by the Federal Reserve, mainly state-chartered banks that are members of the Federal Reserve. CRA information on other depository institutions is available from the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), and the Office of Thrift Supervision (OTS). Interagency information about the CRA is available from the Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council (FFIEC).

Read this:

http://www.federalreserve.gov/newsev...n20080213a.htm

and this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community_Reinvestment_Act

And there is much much more.

Typical is one study saying that NON CRA regulated institutions made the SUB PRIME LOANS.. Saying that ONLY 1 in 4 sub prime loans were made by CRA regulated banks. Like being 25% of the problem is NOT being part of the problem. THAT is the result of the Government's own examination of its own practices.

NET: Politicians of both parties FORCED banks to make loans to people that could not AND would not pay.