Released: April 14, 2008

Foreclosure politics

Source: New York Times (Free Registration)

With foreclosures running at about 20,000 per week, at least 100,000 more families are likely to lose their homes before Congress passes a relief bill. And even then, the measure may fail to stanch the problem unless Congress comes up with something that is significantly better than proposals currently in either chamber. To produce a worthy relief package, lawmakers will first have to scrap most of the provisions in a bill passed last week by the Senate. That bill would cost $21 billion over 10 years, with $15 billion of the total going to tax cuts that offer no direct help to at-risk families or hard-hit communities. One set of cuts would subsidize renewable energy; another would let businesses take temporarily larger write-offs for losses.

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