doing a paper on the US government role in the current mortgage/housing meltdown?

Question by Tim6298: doing a paper on the US government role in the current mortgage/housing meltdown?
What points should I try to make? Any good articles, or websites?
Anything that will list policies that were put in place but the governement that led to the current housing crisis, and policies that will get us out of it

Best answer:

Answer by stephen sexton
Accually goverment caused the melt down in the first place. During the Clinton years they said lenders need to lower their regulations so lower income people could get loans for homes. People they wouldn’t have lended to before. Then as time went on more and more lower income people could get bigger and bigger loans and then could’nt pay them back. Now your want goverment to fix the problem they created. Interesting.

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