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I'm not making **** up.
Remember during the Reagan administration when some Republicans came up with the idea of giving those poor Americans who lived in government housing the deeds to their homes under the condition they couldn't put it on the market for twenty years.
The idea behind doing this is that once they owned the property they would start upkeeping the property and soon start taking pride in their neighborhoods. That they would be more concerned on what was going on in their neighborhoods. Eventually less crime and drugs.
The Democrats shot down that idea. Probably fearing that these homeowners would kick the government monkey off their backs and stop voting for Democrats who keep trying to push free stuff on them in exchange for their votes and self respect.
I don't recall, but that sounds like the most massive of government hand outs. You would really support buying a house for the poor people in this country? Sounds like a good way to make real estate prices blow way out of proportion to their actual value, I don't think we need another housing bubble.