Not the washington state I grew up in.
Posted on 04/24/2025 4:10:44 PM PDT by TigerClaws
Washington Gov. Bob Ferguson (D) signed a law expanding the Covenant Homeownership Program to make it easier for minorities to buy homes.
Washington passed the program two years ago, meant to help first-time homebuyers “if they’re descended from someone affected by racist real estate practices in Washington before 1968.”
🚨 BREAKING: Washington @GovBobFerguson just signed into law changes to the most outrageous, illegal reparations program in the entire country. It now GIFTS down payments, averaging $120,000, to black first-time homebuyers without ANY proof of direct housing discrimination. pic.twitter.com/dr0Xet0fHZ
— Brandi Kruse (@BrandiKruse) April 24, 2025
You have to be from these groups:
Black Latino Indigenous Pacific Islander Korean Asian Indian
From The Center Square:
The Covenant Home Ownership program offers home buying assistance to minorities who have faced housing discrimination in the past. The program is open to those who lived in or had a parent, grandparent or great-grandparent living in Washington before 1968 and who meet one of the following government-defined racial identities: “Black, Hispanic, Native American, Alaska Native, Native Hawaiian or other Pacific Islander, Korean and Asian Indian.”
Launched on July 1, 2024, the program allows qualified homebuyers to apply through their lenders for zero-interest loans to help fund down payments and closing costs. The loans are funded by fees on real estate documents recorded with the state.
SSHB 1996 would increase the income threshold for applicants to 140% of the area median income and allow for loans to be fully forgiven after five years of repayment.
It would also change one of the oversight committee membership positions to include a representative from a nonprofit organization that provides housing counseling, replacing the previous requirement for a community-based organization specializing in affordable housing development.
The Democrats shot down all 15 amendments proposed by Republicans, including one banning convicted sex offenders (emphasis mine):
Rep. Dan Griffey, R-Allyn, offered an amendment that would exclude those who have been convicted of sex crimes from participating in the program.
“It might break your heart as well, Madame Speaker [Laurie Jinkins], to think that somebody that raped or abused a child or raped or abused a woman, would have preferential treatment over those who survived sexual violence,” he explained.
Griffey brought up his wife’s own trauma with sexual abuse.
“I think if it comes down to choosing one or the other, let’s choose the survivor and not the monster that did it to them,” he said.
Rep. Lillian Ortiz-Self, D-Mukilteo, spoke against Griffey’s amendment.
“Putting this into this bill as if that group of people had a higher propensity to create sexual abuse than anybody else, doesn’t seem logical,” Ortiz-Self said.
Is that woman serious?! My jaw literally dropped when I read her response. Someone does not watch a lot of true crime documentaries or shows.
Then again, these people think money grows on trees. One representative noted that the programs has run out of money in less than a year. The state paid out $34 million in loans!
Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon for the Civil Rights Division had a simple response:
OH? https://t.co/wBQM5tbDna
— Harmeet K. Dhillon (@HarmeetKDhillon) April 24, he Covenant Home Ownership program offers home buying assistance to minorities who have faced housing discrimination in the past. The program is open to those who lived in or had a parent, grandparent or great-grandparent living in Washington before 1968 and who meet one of the following government-defined racial identities: “Black, Hispanic, Native American, Alaska Native, Native Hawaiian or other Pacific Islander, Korean and Asian Indian.”
Launched on July 1, 2024, the program allows qualified homebuyers to apply through their lenders for zero-interest loans to help fund down payments and closing costs. The loans are funded by fees on real estate documents recorded with the state.
SSHB 1996 would increase the income threshold for applicants to 140% of the area median income and allow for loans to be fully forgiven after five years of repayment.
It would also change one of the oversight committee membership positions to include a representative from a nonprofit organization that provides housing counseling, replacing the previous requirement for a community-based organization specializing in affordable housing development.
The Democrats shot down all 15 amendments proposed by Republicans, including one banning convicted sex offenders (emphasis mine):
Rep. Dan Griffey, R-Allyn, offered an amendment that would exclude those who have been convicted of sex crimes from participating in the program.
“It might break your heart as well, Madame Speaker [Laurie Jinkins], to think that somebody that raped or abused a child or raped or abused a woman, would have preferential treatment over those who survived sexual violence,” he explained.
Griffey brought up his wife’s own trauma with sexual abuse.
“I think if it comes down to choosing one or the other, let’s choose the survivor and not the monster that did it to them,” he said.
Rep. Lillian Ortiz-Self, D-Mukilteo, spoke against Griffey’s amendment.
“Putting this into this bill as if that group of people had a higher propensity to create sexual abuse than anybody else, doesn’t seem logical,” Ortiz-Self said.
Is that woman serious?! My jaw literally dropped when I read her response. Someone does not watch a lot of true crime documentaries or shows.
Then again, these people think money grows on trees. One representative noted that the programs has run out of money in less than a year. The state paid out $34 million in loans!
Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon for the Civil Rights Division had a simple response:
“... to make it easier for minorities to buy homes.”
Whites Need Not Apply...again?
So no one of Chinese, Japanese, Laotian, Cambodian or Vietnamese descent qualified?! Outrageous!
The War on White People continues
I think that, on average, these groups earn more than do whites.
So poorer whites must subsidize low-interest loans for wealthier Asians -- who can then more easily outbid whites for houses?
He’s no different than Inslee. Both are corrupt POS.
Sounds like systemic racism.
Yep. Violation of the 14th Amendment.
Because the 2008 crash wasn’t enough?
Washington will be asking the rest of the states for a bailout like California is.
Whites will pay more ?
Blatantly unconstitutional, and they know it.
Das racis ....
Whites may self ID as Trans-Black…. 🤔
Racist pinkos descriminating again.
Not the washington state I grew up in.
As blatant a racist wealth transfer from white taxpayers to POCs as anyone could ask for.
That is just terrible…🙁
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