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Program Earmarks Grants For Hispanic Homebuyers (immigrants)
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| May 3, 2004
| thewbalchannel.com
Posted on 05/09/2004 6:10:21 PM PDT by day
Program Earmarks Grants For Hispanic Homebuyers BALTIMORE -- Some observers are praising efforts to encourage Hispanic immigrants to buy homes in Baltimore, but critics said the city's latest program goes too far.
Baltimore is offering 15 $3,000 grants to Hispanics who buy homes in the city.
The grants have no income limits and are also available to Hispanics who are not new arrivals to the United States.
Legal scholars aren't sure the program could pass legal scrutiny -- in part because it singles out one minority group for special treatment.
The grants are being offered under a broader program to increase homeownership in Baltimore.
The city is offering grants to the first 50 people -- regardless of race -- who close on a house after participating in trolley tours of westside neighborhoods on Saturday.
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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Government; US: Maryland
KEYWORDS: aliens; aztlaniscoming; baltimore; grants; hispanics; homeownership; housing; immigrants; immigration; preferences
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posted on
05/09/2004 6:10:22 PM PDT
by
day
To: day
I could use an extra $3K...wadda 'bout me?
2
posted on
05/09/2004 6:32:01 PM PDT
by
Drango
(A liberal's compassion is limited only by the size of someone else's wallet.)
To: day
I'm live down the road in DC. Will have to look up who is offering this ethnicity-based money. If true it's a gross violation of the fair housing act.
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posted on
05/09/2004 6:35:12 PM PDT
by
dagnabbit
(Islamic Immigration is the West's Suicide)
To: day; B4Ranch
The mind boggles.
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posted on
05/09/2004 6:37:09 PM PDT
by
glock rocks
(Please pray for our patriot armed forces in harm's way - and the families awaiting their safe return)
To: day; DoughtyOne; HiJinx; JackelopeBreeder; Sabertooth
It's official, I'm changing my name to Garcia y Vega.
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posted on
05/09/2004 6:40:04 PM PDT
by
TheSpottedOwl
(Torrance Ca....land of the flying monkeys)
To: day
This makes about as much sense as hispanic grants to miami's hispanic population based only on family origin.
They should just stop the pretense and issue the grant to registered Democrats. After all that is the real goal.
To: dagnabbit
It's probably a white racist liberal democrat. This will encourage "them" to stay in the city and not buy in the "burbs" where the white liberals live and their kids go to school. We wouldn't want to encourage "them" to live where they damn well please now would we?
To: day
Wonder what benefits await me if I become an illegal in Mexico?
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posted on
05/09/2004 6:50:18 PM PDT
by
sully777
(Our descendants will be enslaved by political expediency and expenditure)
To: sully777
Actually, Mexicans LOVE gringos and the money and entrepreneurial talent we bring with us. I have never been hasseled by immigration down there.
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posted on
05/09/2004 6:59:45 PM PDT
by
Clemenza
("Knowledge is Good" --- Emil Faber, Founder of Faber College)
To: Drango
I think you've got to buy a house in Baltimore. $3k isn't enough to get me to visit.
This kind of wealth redistribution is dumb, but so is buying a house in Baltimore.
To: day
Will someone sue them, please? As I recall from reading about the early 1960s, churches in cities were being threatened by the feds because they allowed parishioners to advertise their houses "privately" to other parishioners. That was considered "discriminatory." So now we have legal discrimination, which makes it all better.
To: day
There is nothing humourous about this. It is disgusting and despicable.
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posted on
05/09/2004 7:27:37 PM PDT
by
montag813
("A nation can survive fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within.")
To: valkyrieanne
I think it's illegal to advertise that a home is near a church or synagogue yet they can encourage Hispanics to buy a home.
My son and his wife are busting their a**** to get enough money together to buy their first home in the NYC area and just can't do it. How about a leg up for someone like them? No way,wrong ethnicity!!
Makes my blood boil.
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posted on
05/09/2004 7:56:56 PM PDT
by
Mears
To: longtermmemmory
This makes about as much sense as hispanic grants to miami's hispanic population based only on family origin. Miami's a goner. There's even a bumper sticker that says "Will the last American to leave Miami please bring the flag?".
To: sully777
That's easy: jail. They don't like illegals down in Mexico.
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posted on
05/09/2004 9:20:12 PM PDT
by
Pelham
To: day
I am a veteran.
I am a citizen of the USA.
I am a single mother.
I am not qualified for any government "programs", since I have a long record of paying my own way in life.
I just pay for everyone else's kiss from Uncle Sugar.
I am supposed to be happy about this forced charity.
But I am forbidden to partake of my own prepaid largess.
After all, I don't really need any government services that I have paid for, since I have proven my ability to work.
I just feed the machine, and should shut up and work even harder, so that others may feed freely at the public trough without shame.
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posted on
05/09/2004 9:29:19 PM PDT
by
sarasmom
(Watching mainstream liberal media "news reports" will cause brain atrophy.)
To: sarasmom
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posted on
05/09/2004 9:30:20 PM PDT
by
day
To: day
Here's the first step to do something about this. Contact those involved and ask why they support racist programs. And, since it appears the feds are involved, contact your congressmen too.
From this:
In addition to 50 $3,000-grants available to the general public, ten grants will be reserved for Hispanic families participating in the workshop on September 6thand the trolley tour program. The Baltimore City Department of Housing and Community Development is undertaking this expanded grant program in cooperation with the Mayors Hispanic Liaison Office, Live Baltimore Marketing Center, Fannie Mae, and Centro de la Comunidad. According José Ruiz, Hispanic Liaison and project coordinator, "The Road to Your Home in Baltimore / El Camino a Su Hogar en Baltimore workshop and tour will provide participant with the main ingredients to becoming homeowners. The chance to receive a $3,000 grant will be a great incentive to participants who might otherwise be unable to make a down payment. For more information and to register contact Lorena Beltran at 410-545-6532. Special thanks to Assisi House, Home Down Payment Gift Foundation, BB&T Mortgage, Chase Manhattan Mortgage Corporation, Countrywide Home Loans, Live Baltimore, El Mensajero, El Tiempo Latino, and Baltimore City Department of Housing and Community Development (DHCD).
To: lonewacko_dot_com
Here's some of the people who work at
Centro de la Comunidad. President Ortega appears to have been involved in some scandal
recently. Note that one of their directors is from the Dominican Republic consulate.
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