Posted on 06/22/2022 12:28:58 PM PDT by Steely Tom
Longtime MSNBC commentator joins the show to discuss the country's political future. Then Midwest Newsroom editors discuss their work to chronicle abuses inflicted on wouldbe home buyers, and Iowa Legal Aid weighs in on what options these buyers have.
Following 26 years on television including MSNBC's Hardball, Chris Matthews has been a primetime voice on politics, national and abroad. On this episode of River to River, host Ben Kieffer speaks with Matthews about the Republicans and Democrats and the extent to which they appeal to working people. Matthews also discusses his alleged history of sexist behavior and comments.
One of the few ways individuals and households who can't get a conventional mortgage can come to own a home is through so-called contracts for deeds. These private agreements are between two parties to buy a house, a seller and buyer. The seller collects monthly payments, but it's not until the last payment that the deed is exchanged. A new investigation from the Midwest Newsroom shows how a general lack of regulation and oversight around these contracts means many buyers end up paying into houses they never end up owning, losing all their equity in the process.
Last, Alex Kornya of Iowa Legal Aid joins the show. Despite Iowa's comparatively stronger protections for buyers, he said Iowa Legal Aid continues to find clients in precarious positions after a contract for deed went awry. He describes one case his team dealt with:
"He was facing homelessness. He had no real capacity to start again. And if he hadn't been able to find counsel to get the forfeiture dismissed, I think things would have been pretty bad for him," Kornya said. "... There's no protection really, except possibly the disclosure laws which are really limited in many ways for enforceability."
Why would any Conservative trust matthews ?
Reduce taxes and regulations.
Democrat hack
Stop all immigration & protectionist tariffs. Everything else is BS.
Mathews is knocking around the minor leagues. Maybe the upcoming turn over on CNN will bring him back to the bigs.
Dems clearly need to focus more on Trans-rights, preferred pronouns, LGBTQRTY etc.
On this episode of River to River, on public radio. What, a few hundred listeners? That's not minor league, that's T Ball.
Damn!
Thought that this POS communist simp had gone to ground temperature a long time ago...
It took 8 posts before someone called him Tingles. SAD!
Sometimes when someone is MIA brother......it’s best just to leave ‘em there. Just sayin’ 😏
Real title: “how can I help demented joe and his marxist buddies fool the voters again?”
He is a candidate for CNN PLUS.
He'll soon join Joe Namath and Jimmie JJ Walker in telling us about the benefits of a Medicare Advantage insurance plan.
Figures he’d show up on public radio.
I have absolutely no interest in what he thinks!!!!
Parties could begin with the truth.
The Dems could start piling in to rickety unseaworthy boats and setting sail for their motherland, Communist China. That would make me like them a whole lot more.
and maybe not talk about trans non-stop?
And the size of government, drastically.
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