In Pa., Clinton to Discuss Housing Plan

By: Fernando Suarez
Topics: Hillary Clinton

(CBS)

From CBS News' Fernando Suarez:

NEW YORK, NY - After taking Easter weekend to relax with family at home in New York, Hillary Clinton is back on the campaign trail, campaigning in Pennsylvania today where she is scheduled to deliver what her campaign calls a "major policy speech" on the current housing crunch.

Clinton's plan is being billed as a "second stimulus package focused on housing" according to her campaign website. The new plan, which she will unveil at the University of Pennsylvania, calls for an emergency $30 billion housing fund aimed at providing direct assistance to homeowners at risk of having their homes foreclosed.

The plan also takes aim at the prospect that during the current mortgage crisis, many families may be forced out of their homes. She argues that will leave behind empty and abandoned structures, places that breed crime and promote vandalism, causing the value of surrounding homes to drop as a result. Her plan would allow communities to purchase abandoned homes as a preventive measure.

Clinton first laid out an economic stimulus package back in December, but that plan was aimed at helping to curb rising mortgage prices, primarily for millions of Americans with subprime mortgages. That plan includes tax incentives to help jumpstart the slowing economy.

Later today, Clinton will host a "Women for Hillary" event and a "Solution's for America" rally in other parts of the Keystone State.

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by greenfun March 25, 2008 2:41 PM EDT: Clinton discussing housing plans and other serious issues. Obama at the beach wondering when the roof is going to blow off this Emil Jones thing. Better get busy with another speech.; Reply to this comment


by blkpresident March 25, 2008 12:51 PM EDT: 28 more days and finally PA. votes. Somebody may want to give lil missy a heads-up to dust her apron off when the results start to come in. Somewhere in NY a lonely kitchen stove is missing a woman''s touch. Her pipe dream of a woman becoming president ends in PA. Don''t forget to vacuum the floors, do some dusting and turn out the lights at your campaign headquarters missy.; Reply to this comment


by pepperwood2 March 25, 2008 10:18 AM EDT: Wheeeeeee this is fun. I''m just warming up! Show me the money, marijuana, & more photo opts pleaseeee. CACKLE CACKLE CACKLE; Reply to this comment


by jpspec March 24, 2008 5:21 PM EDT: After Obama gave a speech in a automobile plant in Michigan, I read the following. "Obama''s (economic) plan. is the most shameless piece of potential plagiarism that I have ever seen. He basically took Clinton''s words and Clinton''s policies and called them his own. If I were a professor I''d give him an F and try to get him kicked out of school," said Kevin Hassett, Sen. John McCain''s economic adviser and the Director of Economic Policy Studies at the American Enterprise Institute.; Reply to this comment


by blkpresident March 24, 2008 12:32 PM EDT: "Women for Hillary" event? What will she do have some of her female campaign staffers create an audience? From where I''ve sitting if ''Lil Hillary really had any substantial female support she wouldn''t be in the position she finds herself in. Maybe a few of these women in attendance may have the courage to encourage lil missy to drop out and get re-aquainted with her lonely kitchen stove.; Reply to this comment