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奥巴马总统每周电台演讲总统呼吁国会向房主们伸出援手 Hi, everybody. 大家好。 In recent weeks, you might have noticed something. 最近几周，你们可能注意到了一些事情， Or maybe even heard the sound of it if you live close enough. 或者如果你住在附近，也应该有所耳闻。 New homes are going up. 新房子正在拔地而起。 In fact, construction workers are breaking ground on new homes in America at the fastest pace in more than four years. 实际上，建筑工人们正以四年多来的最快速度建造新房。 At the same time, more homes are being sold. 而与此同时，更多房屋也正被售出。 Home values are back on the rise. 房屋价格重回上升势头。 And foreclosure filings are at their lowest point in the five years since the housing bubble burst and left millions of responsible families holding the bag. 自从五年前房地产泡沫破裂，致使成千上万负责任的房主们被迫背上包袱时，现在地产取消赎回权已经降到了最低点。 Now, were not where we need to be yet. 而现在，我们还远未达到我们企及的目标。 Too many homes are still underwater. 还有太多的房屋仍然没有被建造， Too many families are still having a hard time making the mortgage on their piece of the American Dream. 还有太多的家庭依然为了实现美国梦而处于艰难的还贷时期。 But one of the heaviest drags on our recovery is getting lighter. 但影响着我们复苏的最重的其中一个包袱已经减轻了许多。 Now we have to build on the progress weve made, and keep moving forward. 现在我们要以所取得的成绩为基础继续前进。 I never believed that the best way to deal with the housing market was to just sit back, do nothing, and simply wait for things to hit bottom. 我从来都不相信处理房地产市场问题的最佳方案是坐视不管，等待市场触底。 That would have been a disaster for all the responsible families who—through no fault of their own—were struggling to make ends meet. 这样对于那些没有错的负责任家庭而言是一次灾难，他们要为了实现收支平衡而还贷。 Instead, Ive made helping those homeowners a priority. 因此，我一直都把帮助这些房主当成第一要务。 Since I took office, my Administration has taken action to help millions of families stay in their homes. 而自从我出任总统以来，我的政府已经采取措施帮助数百万家庭保住了他们的房子。 We teamed up with attorneys general in almost every state to investigate and crack down on the practices that caused this mess. 我们与最高检察官们组成团队一起调查几乎每个州的引发房地产危机的恶劣行径并进行严厉处罚。 And in the end, we secured a $25 billion settlement from the biggest banks—one of the biggest settlements in history—and used it