hypocritexposer
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I guess now that Bush has been made the scapegoat, it's safe to elect Cuomo as NY Gov... whatever is best for the Country, I guess.
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CUOMO SAYS BILL SIGNED BY PRESIDENT CLINTON SOLVES SECTION 8 CRISIS BY PRESERVING AFFORDABLE HOUSING AND SAVING TAXPAYERS BILLIONS
WASHINGTON -- Legislation signed into law today by President Clinton will avert an affordable housing crisis that could have threatened up to 4.4 million Americans with homelessness, Housing Secretary Andrew Cuomo said.
Cuomo said the signing by the President of the Department of Housing and Urban Development's appropriations bill completes the work of solving the Section 8 crisis -- a goal Cuomo set as his top priority when he became Secretary.
"President Clinton and the Congress have worked together in bipartisan cooperation to solve the Section 8 crisis," Cuomo said. "The legislation signed by the President today is an historic achievement -- the first major housing legislation enacted in six years. The President's action will prevent many families from being put out on the street, averting an unprecedented explosion of homelessness nationwide."
http://archives.hud.gov/news/1997/pr97-242.cfm
Andrew Cuomo and Fannie and Freddie
How the youngest Housing and Urban Development secretary in history gave birth to the mortgage crisis
By Wayne Barrett
published: August 05, 2008
There are as many starting points for the mortgage meltdown as there are fears about how far it has yet to go, but one decisive point of departure is the final years of the Clinton administration, when a kid from Queens without any real banking or real-estate experience was the only man in Washington with the power to regulate the giants of home finance, the Federal National Mortgage Association (FNMA) and the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation (FHLMC), better known as Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
Andrew Cuomo, the youngest Housing and Urban Development secretary in history, made a series of decisions between 1997 and 2001 that gave birth to the country's current crisis. He took actions that—in combination with many other factors—helped plunge Fannie and Freddie into the subprime markets without putting in place the means to monitor their increasingly risky investments. He turned the Federal Housing Administration mortgage program into a sweetheart lender with sky-high loan ceilings and no money down, and he legalized what a federal judge has branded "kickbacks" to brokers that have fueled the sale of overpriced and unsupportable loans. Three to four million families are now facing foreclosure, and Cuomo is one of the reasons why.
http://www.villagevoice.com/content/printVersion/541234?ref=patrick.net