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jpb nypost 3 16 24 housing wrecking ball-1<\/a>New York Post, March 16, 2024<\/p>\n

Joe Biden is once again taking a \u2018wrecking ball\u2019 to America\u2019s housing market<\/a>\"\"<\/a><\/h1>\n

by\u00a0 James Bovard<\/p>\n

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Would you be willing to save a few hundred dollars on a car purchase if the seller seemed squirrely and didn\u2019t have the title to the car?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Unfortunately, you will be on the hook for Joe Biden\u2019s latest vote buying scheme to subsidize mortgages for houses with shaky titles.<\/strong><\/p>\n

In his State of the Union address, Biden proclaimed, \u201cMy administration is also eliminating title insurance on federally backed mortgages.\u201d\u00a0 What could possibly go wrong?<\/p>\n

Title insurance protects homeowners against financial loss if there is a defect in the title to their property.<\/p>\n

\u201cWrecking ball benevolence\u201d \u2014 my phrase in a 2004 Barron\u2019s article<\/a> that was quoted in a 2017 federal appeals court decision \u2014 leveled the housing sector. \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

As Rep. Patrick McHenry (R-NC), chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, declared in 2013, \u201cRank cronyism, Enron-style accounting and outright financial fraud made [Fannie and Freddie] so powerful and unaccountable that they were able to wreck our economy.\u201d<\/p>\n

Despite the debacles earlier in this century, Team Biden is championing \u201cno clean title, no problem\u201d mortgage loans.<\/p>\n

Biden policymakers believe they are so smart that they can turbo-charge housing demand while removing the guardrails \u2014 and nothing bad will happen (except<\/strong> Biden\u2019s reelection).<\/p>\n

In lieu of title insurance, the Biden administration will approve granting subsidized mortgages based on \u201cattorney opinion letters\u201d that assert a lawyer believes someone owns a house.<\/p>\n

Such form letters can now be purchased for $199<\/a> in some locales.\u00a0 This sounds on par with the $99 online deals selling \u201cemotional support animal letters\u201d people exploit to \u201cprove\u201d they need their dog, cat, kangaroo or squirrel with them at all times.<\/p>\n

Having a page of pablum on fancy law-firm letterhead will be no competition for a clean deed \u2014 or a tangled land dispute that could go back generations.<\/p>\n

A recent report by FundingShield found that home title fraud risk \u201creached an all-time high\u201d late last year.<\/p>\n

The title insurance waiver is part of a blizzard of housing interventions to portray Biden as a savior.<\/strong><\/p>\n

But foolish federal policies have made homes less affordable than ever before.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Subsidized mortgages helped send home prices skyrocketing in recent years, along with the Federal Reserve artificially suppressing interest rates.<\/p>\n

Since Biden took office, the average monthly mortgage payment for new home has almost doubled<\/a>, reaching $3,322 per month.<\/p>\n

Not to worry: Uncle Joe is on the case! The White House announced on March 7 that \u201cPresident Biden believes housing costs are too high.\u201d<\/p>\n

Biden is also pushing Congress to approve a $10,000 tax credit for middle-class, first-time homebuyers, a $25,000 handout for down payments for first-generation home buyers and a $10,000 tax credit to \u201cmiddle-class families who sell their starter home, defined as homes below the area median home price in the county, to another owner-occupant.\u201d\u00a0 Why not also provide a $5,000 grant for homes with lawn signs for Democratic candidates? Who entitled the Biden White House to pick winners and losers in the housing market?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Almost all of Biden\u2019s housing \u201creforms\u201d are in the direction of greater recklessness.<\/strong> There was a brief uproar last year when Team Biden announced that home buyers with good credit scores will be forced to subsidize buyers with bad<\/a> credit.<\/p>\n

But that was only the tip of the iceberg.\u00a0 Author and appraiser Jeremy Bagott warns that thanks to Biden policies, Fannie and Freddie \u201chave been pushing to eliminate critical checks and balances in a radical experiment with US taxpayers\u2019 money and the US economy . . . scrapping or weakening long-accepted underwriting safeguards like standard FICO scoring, title insurance, mortgage insurance, downpayments and appraisals.\u201d<\/p>\n

Biden administration officials sanctify their power grabs by prattling about closing the racial homeownership gap.\u00a0But minorities cannot afford any more favors from Washington. The 2008 housing crash slashed in half the average net worth of black and Hispanic households, setting millions of people back an entire generation.<\/strong> More families lost their homes during the 2008 housing crash than lost homes during the Great Depression in the 1930s.<\/p>\n

Rather than waiving title insurance for federally backed mortgages, the feds should finally pull the plug on Fannie and Freddie.\u00a0Those entities have officially been in \u201cfederal conservatorship\u201d since their 2008 bankruptcy. They should have been euthanized long ago.<\/p>\n

Biden\u2019s latest proposals vivify how Washington policymakers learned nothing from their previous housing debacles. There is no reason not to expect politicians and bureaucrats to again whipsaw the housing market they claim they\u2019re rescuing. Unfortunately, reckless economic policies can be good politics as long as the damage does not surface until after the next election.<\/strong><\/p>\n

James Bovard\u2019s latest book is \u201cLast Rights: The Death of American Liberty.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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