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I mean, we weren't forced into it. We were just told we'd be homeless (or some other stand in for poverty) if we didn't.
Now a lot of people with loans are in poverty because of them. We weren't forced into them is only technically true.
Coerced and/or manipulated
Duress is also a good word. "Sign this loan or you'll be sad and poor forever".