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To: TheStockFairy who wrote (148363)	2/4/2002 2:31:21 PM
From: Petrol	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 436258

Uh, the ACLU maybe?

To: TheStockFairy who wrote (148363)	2/4/2002 2:39:43 PM
From: Tommaso	Respond to of 436258

Because it's illegal. "Redlining" was practiced in Chicago (and elsewhere), preventing minorities from getting mortgages in areas with declining property values. As a person who once had to get past tough scrutiny for a mortgage, even though I had 40% of the purchase price in cash for a down payment, I am not too sympathetic with forcing banks to lower their standards for mortgages. Something somewhat similiar was the city map on the wall of a local pizza place, with areas blocked off where no deliveries were to be made. This got them a lot of bad publicity, and the map came down. I don't know if the deliveries resumed to those areas or not. These well-meaning government policies have probably added a lot to what are going to turn out to be nonperforming loans. But don't say that if you want to be elected, unless it's in a very strongly Republican district.