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Lending creates housing rift
Hispanics denied mortgages more frequently than whites

By Greg Avery, Camera Business Writer
September 18, 2005

It was time to buy a house.

Four years of living in Longmont and working for a big company allowed the 38-year-old father of five to rise from janitor to repairman, a better-paying job.

"I was tired of paying rent, and I wanted my own house," he said.

The native of Juarez, Mexico â€â€