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TheStreet.com’s Jim Cramer says you just can’t be as negative as you were before the latest actions.

It’s been right to be more than the average bear for months now. But if you believe that housing played some role in the downturn, then you have to believe that the latest moves are very meaningful for that trashed market.

We have had two major problems in housing: affordability and the ease and cost of mortgage money. We got news this week that ameliorated both difficulties, and we cannot sniff at them as much as it has paid to sniff at everything else that has been done.

First, the government’s buy of GSE paper revives a moribund market and ends a lot of federal indecision. If you recall when the government confiscated the Fannie (NYSE: FNM) (Cramer’s Take) and Freddie (NYSE: FRE) (Cramer’s Take) preferreds and therefore made FNM paper more dangerous, the government at the same time said that it would make mortgage rates come down, presumably by buying a ton of Fannie/Freddie paper. Instead it made a half-hearted effort by buying about $25 billion in paper and then disappeared!

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