If you thought Kamala Harris’ proposal to give certain people $25,000 in other people’s money to help them buy homes they couldn’t otherwise afford, check this one out: apparently, there’s a group in Oregon that’s doing something similar.
Except they’re giving out $30,000 in taxpayer cash, including to illegal aliens.
Yup. According to this, a Portland-based group called “Hacienda Community Development Corporation,” which rakes in millions per year in state and federal tax dollars under Oregon’s Economic Equity Investment Act of 2022, has launched a program that gives up to $30,000 toward housing downpayments for 21 lucky families who get chosen for the pilot program.
According to a flyer advertising the program, the program was billed as exclusively for “refugees, asylum seekers, Green Card holders, and those who arrived in the US illegally as children,” and that American citizens need not apply.
That advertisement understandably caught flak from Oregonians already struggling to buy houses and afford groceries in the state’s ultra-inflated economy and housing market, and from Republican lawmakers outraged that a group funded by public money was doling out cash to literally everyone other than the citizens of the country that's funding it.
Under public fire, the group came out and claimed that the flyer “misstated” who could qualify for the money.
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“A community flyer we created through an outside consultant misstated these program requirements” HCDC said in a statement, clarifying that they “do not discriminate against anyone and serve all Oregonians equally.” (Which begs the question, how in the world did a flyer for this program make it through the vetting process and get disseminated to the public with such a massive error? Unless…)
The group went on to blame “conservative media, tabloid websites, and social media” for spreading “false information” - based on the message on the group’s own flyer.
But while HCDC did backtrack on only offering the money to non-citizens, that doesn’t mean they aren’t handing out taxpayer cash to illegal aliens who are living in the U.S. in violation of federal immigration law. In fact, in that same statement, the organization reiterated that applicants will only qualify for the $30k if they meet one of several criteria, including having been “discriminated against” by a bank or credit union due to their “citizenship status.”
Recipients must also be “Oregon taxpayers with a mortgage pre-approved by a bank or credit union and meet two out of five risk factors outlined by the program governed by State Statute and RGA requirements.”