Here should be an objective of Government itself to provide at least as much assistance to the little fellow as it is now giving to the large banks and corporations." Franklin D. Roosevelt April 7 1932 The burgeoning home-mortgage crisis of 2007 bears an eerie resemblance to financial conditions 75 years ago when FDR realized that only the U.S.

Home-affordability problem spreading
Nationally the median household income grew by about 60 percent from 1990 to 2006 roughly matching inflation according to U.S. census figures on housing prices released today.