This is unbelieveable, the US govenment is now in the position to take your property for pennies on the dollar if you should be so unlucky as to lose your job in the coming meltdown. This is just the beginning, this week is going to be a bad week in the stock market.
Here in CA housing values have dropped substantially but still have a ways to go to meet income levels, this bailout will not stop the fall as more and more properties go into foreclosure. The only way people were paying such inflated prices in the first place was because of the increase of the value of their homes from the housing bubble.
A dinky 900sq ft condo for $300k? As I said most people in CA do not have the income level to afford the payment. Matter of fact this state is made up of a majority Mexican/Latin America peasant stock with an average 5th grade education.
The damned government has no right to step in and prop up these unsustainble housing prices, it's not going to work because this is just the beginning of the unemployment meltdown.