J.C. Watts: Boosting Black Home Ownership

NPR

Published August 24, 2004 at 12:00 AM EDT

NPR's Tavis Smiley and former Republican Congressman J.C. Watts discuss how President Bush's promise to increase minority home ownership by 5.5 million households by 2010 is progressing.

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