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Justice Department Announces New Initiative to Combat Redlining
Dept. of Justice ^ | 10/22/21 | Cherri Green

Posted on 10/26/2021 1:24:24 PM PDT by Oneanddone

"Memphis, TN – Today the Department of Justice, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Tennessee, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) and the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) announced an agreement to resolve allegations that Trustmark National Bank engaged in lending discrimination by redlining predominantly Black and Hispanic neighborhoods in Memphis, Tennessee. "Redlining" is an illegal practice in which lenders avoid providing services to individuals living in communities of color because of the race or national origin of the people who live in those communities."

(Excerpt) Read more at justice.gov ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy
KEYWORDS: blackkk; cherrigreen; memphis; merrittgarland; mindyourbusiness; tennessee
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Seems like we went through this in the 90's with Clinton enforcing Carter's redlining laws and it created the biggest economic meltdown in the history of the country.
1 posted on 10/26/2021 1:24:24 PM PDT by Oneanddone
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To: Oneanddone

“...the biggest economic meltdown in the history of the country.”

Until this next one.


2 posted on 10/26/2021 1:25:58 PM PDT by decal (MOLON JABE)
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To: Oneanddone

The definition of insanity.


3 posted on 10/26/2021 1:28:41 PM PDT by VTenigma (The Democrat party is the party of the mathematically challenged )
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To: Oneanddone

“Allegations”

Was any actual “redlining” going on, or are they just launching an new initiative to combat something that probably isn’t currently an issue?


4 posted on 10/26/2021 1:30:27 PM PDT by Antihero101607
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To: Oneanddone

my guess is, this is 100% bullcrap. If it were true, someone with perfect credit would be denied a loan in those areas. I doubt that was happening.

FAR more likely... the vast majority of people in that area who apply for loans don’t have the credit to approve.


5 posted on 10/26/2021 1:31:30 PM PDT by TexasFreeper2009
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To: VTenigma

I’ve almost blown a couple engines by redlining.


6 posted on 10/26/2021 1:32:46 PM PDT by gitmo (If your theology doesn't become your biography, what good is it?)
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To: Oneanddone

The local Indianapolis red star has been peppering stories about local banks like this for weeks.

Should’ve realized this was narrative for a shake down of the banks.


7 posted on 10/26/2021 1:34:28 PM PDT by Skywise
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To: Oneanddone

Doesn’t seem like a viable business model.


8 posted on 10/26/2021 1:34:57 PM PDT by gitmo (If your theology doesn't become your biography, what good is it?)
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To: Antihero101607

Political redlining us going on.

But Deep State’s cool with that.


9 posted on 10/26/2021 1:35:06 PM PDT by mewzilla (Those aren't masks. They're muzzles. )
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To: Antihero101607

CFPB is trying to squeeze $5 million out of the bank over those allegations. See how much of that $5 million end up in the campaign coffers of Democrats.


10 posted on 10/26/2021 1:37:14 PM PDT by Oneanddone ( )
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To: Oneanddone

Considering what BLM has done in black communities these last few I would say that “redlining” can simply represent being prudent.

If radicals never burned black communities, or were shot during their rampages by their neighbors as should happen, that would not be true.

The same line of reasoning should prevent investment or loans in white towns where rioters act up but are tolerated and even protected too.

That’s because it isn’t about race, it’s about thinking you might not get a return on your investment.


11 posted on 10/26/2021 1:37:19 PM PDT by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
Citigroup should be forced to take on all those Memphis mortgages from now on.

12 posted on 10/26/2021 1:40:45 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: gitmo

Banks have an obligation to its depositors and cd holders to make safe, prime mortgages. Everyone, no matter their race, cannot be a home owner due to not having the money, not credit worthy or sometimes the property in certain areas is so bad its not worth loaning money against. Forcing lenders to make these loans only leads to disaster.


13 posted on 10/26/2021 1:42:48 PM PDT by Oneanddone ( )
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To: Oneanddone

Relax, this only temporary. The long-term plan is to remove single family houses and get people packed into high-rise apartments, where they can be served by public transit and no longer need cars. At that point, almost all of the 30% or so of the country that is occupied by housing can be restored to its original, pristine, state.

And I hope you RINO-haters look forward to this, since every November election you sit out brings us closer to this end-game.


14 posted on 10/26/2021 1:44:23 PM PDT by BobL (I shop at Walmart and eat at McDonald's, I just don't tell anyone, like most here.)
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To: Oneanddone

So it’s a shakedown then?


15 posted on 10/26/2021 2:01:32 PM PDT by Antihero101607
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To: Antihero101607

https://thehill.com/opinion/finance/373251-its-time-to-audit-the-cfpb

“....Dodd Frank Act itself. The law specifies that the CFPB may designate a trustee for the funds it collects from businesses as civil penalties. Because there is no effective congressional oversight, that means that CFPB bureaucrats can pick and choose the recipients of their largesse without needing any kind of permission from Congress.”

....it’s happened in the past when Obama’s pick was running the CFPB.


16 posted on 10/26/2021 2:12:57 PM PDT by Oneanddone ( )
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To: Oneanddone
This is a repeat of the stupidity of the Carter/Clinton years. Redlining is performed based on criminal statistics that make a property less attractive and less valuable. It's a significant financial risk for a lender. The dumbass "Just Us" department doesn't care. They will compel loans within high crime areas where the property collateral will depreciate before the loan gets repaid. It might well end up burned in a riot.

The "Just Us" department will ignore the criminal statistics and focus on the demographics of the persons living in the area. Ignoring crime stats lets them pretend racism is the motivation for the redlining.

17 posted on 10/26/2021 2:20:00 PM PDT by Myrddin
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To: BobL
Yellen's insane plan to tax "unrealized capital gains" is intended to seize the private property of the middle class. The Fed will print money (debasing the currency). The house will be appraised against the debased value of the currency and taxed on the "appreciated price" caused by the debasement. The homeowner won't have the money to pay this tax. Along comes Blackrock and buys the property to generate the money to pay the government. The homeowner is dispossessed and left with a fraction of the original value of the home. Lather, rinse, repeat until there are no privately owned homes.
18 posted on 10/26/2021 2:26:45 PM PDT by Myrddin
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To: Myrddin

from the article, the Justice Dept defined redlining as “an illegal practice in which lenders avoid providing services to individuals living in communities of color because of the race or national origin of the people who live in those communities.”

Evidently for the Justice Dept,. lenders checking things as employment, ability to pay, credit worthiness, property value is redlining therefore are “illegal practices” in processing mortgages.


19 posted on 10/26/2021 2:27:39 PM PDT by Oneanddone ( )
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To: Oneanddone

Democrat thugs plan to destroy the suburbs.

Only the beginning...


20 posted on 10/26/2021 3:14:54 PM PDT by stinkerpot65 (Global warming is a Marxist lie. )
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