[Da Coyote]

Whilst I agree with your concerns, the president setting a price for houses and a set interest rate is just as logical as the Cretin-in-Cbief declaring pi to be equal to exactly 3.0.

[reformedliberal]

Squatting has been going on in the urban areas and in Europe and the UK for a long time. Here, it just isn’t publicized or, if something happens to make it visible, it is down played in the media.

It has a lot less to do with home affordability than with arrogant, aggressive anarchists itching for a fight in the name of their *needs*.

We got into this mess with Presidents and Congress mandating mortgages to anyone who wanted one and the privatizing the losses to make the banks whole.

Just roust them out and most of all: ignore them.

[Larry Lucido]

Did you write this drivel?

Or are you just posting it?

You didn’t really comment on it.

[MEGoody]

. . .he could mandate that all homes in the US be priced at current market values and set 30 year fixed at 4.50%.

Not the job of the President!

[ReformedBeckite]

Get the government out of housing(HUD), get the government out of funding loans for housing, get the government out of unnecessary restrictive zoning, and phase out itemized tax deductions on housing interest and you will see the inflated housing prices drop to affordability prices,

Instead our politicians are deeply involved in investments that involve housing, Instead our politicians are deeply involved in attempting to inflate the prices of houses to provide a bigger taxable property values. My friend the deep reality is politicians, government, bankers, real estate agencies, lawyers involved in housing, (to name a few)are not your friends, their rooted business it to inflate the prices of housing so they can unrighteous take money out of your pocket and put it in their pockets, deregulate, deregulate, deregulate.

That's my two cents on the whole mess.

[umgud]

How about bull-dozing every foreclosed property that the US taxpayers guarantee loans for?

[apillar]

If the so-called president of the US really wanted to do something productive with the stroke of his Executive Order pin he could mandate that all homes in the US be priced at current market values and set 30 year fixed at 4.50 %.

Uhhh, no he couldn't (legally at least). All that a president can use an executive order for is to direct a executive branch agency to act in a certain way when the federal law on the particular issue is vague or nonexistent. Like for the recent executive order directing INS to not deport illegal alien without a criminal record. He was basically telling them how to prioritize deportations.

Besides, if the Government said you had to sell your house at a fixed amount and told lenders they had to lend at 4.5%, the only result would be people would stop selling homes and lenders would stop lending.

[listenhillary]

You vote Republican? Your house value? $5.00

Stroke of the pen, law of the land. It’s kind of cool...