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Transcript: MORTGAGE LENDING ABUSES:CHARLES E. SCHUMER
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- Congressional Testimony
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- May 24, 2000
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Testimony of Senator Charles E. Schumer Hearing on Predatory Lending
Practices
House Committee on Banking and Finance
May 24, 2000
Thank you Chairman Leach for allowing me the opportunity to testify
at
this morning's hearing on Mortgage Lending Abuse.
There can be no disputing the fact that there has been an enormous
rise
in the incidences of predatory lending. And this rise has paralleled
the
explosion of subprime lending in the past ten years, again most notably
in our nations's minority and low- income neighborhoods. Subprime
lending
has grown from a $20 billion to $150 billion dollar industry between
1993
and 1998. There were 80,000 subprime loans made ...