Manhattan Prep - 5 Lb. Book of Gre Practice Problems 1,800 Practice Problems in Book and Online (Manhattan Prep 5 lb Series (2019 Edition))-Manhattan Prep (2019)
Questions 19 and 20 are based on the following reading passage. In 1977, the Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) was passed for the
purpose of reducing
discriminatory credit practices in low-income neighborhoods. The act
required Federal
financing supervisory agencies to use their authority to encourage
lending institutions to meet
the credit needs of all borrowers in their communities. The CRA had
little impact until 1993,
5 when the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)
initiated legal proceedings
against lenders who declined too many applications from minority
borrowers.
Some argue that, while providing equal access to credit is an
important aim, pressure
on lenders from HUD led to practices that later caused those same
lenders to be assailed as
“predatory.” In
Housing Boom and Bust , economist Thomas Sowell
wrote that the CRA, far from
10 being as benign as it appeared, was based on a flawed assumption: that
government officials
were qualified to tell banks how to lend the money entrusted to them by
depositors and investors.
Consider each of the answer choices separately and indicate all that apply.
19. It can be inferred from the passage that
the CRA was perceived by some as seemingly innocuous
HUD had the ability to affect banking practices
Thomas Sowell had asserted that a certain level of expertise is
required to direct banks’ lending activities
Consider each of the answer choices separately and indicate all that apply.
20. Which of the following can be inferred about discriminatory credit
practices?
They are more common in middle-income neighborhoods than in
high-income neighborhoods.
Legislators who voted for the CRA did so because they were opposed
to such practices.
Critics allege that attempts to combat such practices can have
unintended consequences.