Okay for the last fucking time - Trump is not putting a halt on all foreclosures and evictions He does not have the power to do that, nobody does He is putting a pause on all foreclosures and evictions the federal government has authority over through HUD
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Good God I'm so pissed about this narrative, "Trump just did the most progressive thing ever while Obama did nothing" NO DIPSHIT OBAMA DID THE EXACT SAME THING What Obama didn't do was buy out all the debt and forgive it, which Trump isn't going to fucking do either
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People may remember this as Obama doing nothing because hey it doesn't matter if they put the foreclosures on pause if you still lose your house afterwards PEOPLE ARE STILL GOING TO LOSE THEIR HOUSES AFTERWARDS NOW TOO
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People are drawing this equivalence because they're fucking stupid, because they're eager to score a cheap hot take, and because - as much as they talk about 2009 being the defining event of their generation - they barely remember what actually happened in any detail
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You can call Obama initiatives like the MHAP (Making Homes Affordable Program) and HARP (Homeowner Affordable Refinance Program) cheap half-measures, fine, or even "doing nothing" But they are demonstrably way more ($75 billion more) than Trump did or is going to do
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