Posted tagged ‘Housing’

Politics Live: Next Up, the Housing Market

February 20, 2009

President Barack Obama is back on the stump today, just one day after signing the most expensive economic recovery bill in history, Obama introduced his housing plan with a $75 billion dollar price tag.

“By making these investments in foreclosure-prevention today, we will save ourselves the costs of foreclosure tomorrow — costs borne not just by families with troubled loans, but by their neighbors and communities and by our economy as a whole,” Obama told a crowd in Mesa, Arizona. “Given the magnitude of these costs, it is a price well worth paying.”

For more details about the president’s three part economic plan, tune into Wednesday’s edition of Politics Live.

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