San Francisco Values: Forget Acorn and Minta Garcia, more wealthy San Francisco homeowners demand piece of mortgage bailout pie

These are your San Francisco values folks.

If it isn’t fraudulent ACORN foreclosure “victims” siphoning off taxpayer funds, it’s well-off home borrowers in Nancy Pelosi’s backyard demanding a piece of the mortgage bailout pie.

Moochers to the left of me, moochers to the far left…

Legislation heading to the floor of the House today would help more Bay Area homeowners qualify for the mortgage relief in President Obama’s housing rescue plan.

After reading an article in Monday’s Chronicle indicating that many people holding the pricy mortgages common to the Bay Area would not be able to take advantage of low-cost refinances, Rep. Jackie Speier, D-Hillsborough, amended a bill scheduled for a House vote.

“After reading your article, I thought, this isn’t going to work for California,” Speier said.

“I’ve drafted an amendment so that rather than being limited to whether the loan was conforming at time of origination, it will be based on (whether it’s conforming at) the time of (modification), which will take the limit up to $729,750 in high-cost areas. This should make more people in the Bay Area eligible.”

Speier’s amendment addresses an aspect of the plan that encourages mortgage services to modify loans to make them more affordable for struggling borrowers. The modifications are supposed to reduce monthly payments to 31 percent of a borrower’s income for five years; they also could include lowering the principal or refinancing the loan.

The amendment says that loan modifications must be available to loans that are “conforming,” meaning those that can be securitized or guaranteed by Freddie Mac or Fannie Mae. The conforming loan limit was $417,000 until July 1, 2007. About 60 percent of homes purchased in the expensive Bay Area in 2005 and 2006 were bought with higher-cost “jumbo” loans above $417,000; about 30 percent of homes in California were jumbos in those years, according to MDA DataQuick. The limit is now $729,750 in high-cost regions, including most of the Bay Area.

“This puts some parameters around what the Obama administration didn’t articulate in its plan and makes it so an important program for the Bay Area and surrounding counties will be widely available to folks, particularly in those areas where mortgages are very high-cost,” said Drew Hammill, a spokesman for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.

Hammill added that loan modifications might be available for even-larger loans, but this language “protects the conforming loan limit in particular areas, which is vital.”

Pelosi supports the amendment and the bill, which is expected to pass the House.

And if they don’t get what they want, they’ll break the padlocks and whine on Oprah until they do…

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One Response to “San Francisco Values: Forget Acorn and Minta Garcia, more wealthy San Francisco homeowners demand piece of mortgage bailout pie”

Dgleon on March 10th, 2009 11:08 am

I don’t know who Minta Garcia is but I can state unequivocally that I don’t care about her money woes. If she bought a house that she can no longer afford, that was a decision that she made and I (and we) do not owe her a darn thing.

BTW, how did a bus driver qualify for that kind of mortgage in the first place? If she wants bailing out, I suggest that her neighbors, family, and friends get together and bail her right out of that house. Put her stuff at the curb and wish her good luck. I really am sick of stupid people. I really am.

I also want to know if this woman and her family are in our country legally.

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