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Al Green: “Somewhere along the way, in the 1980s we ceased to qualify people as homeowners and we started to qualify them as…”

On the recordMay 20, 2013
Somewhere along the way, in the 1980s we ceased to qualify people as homeowners and we started to qualify them as homebuyers.
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Al Green
Democratic · Texas

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Green reflects on the shift in how homebuyers are qualified.

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