Introduction: Neighborhoods -- Beyond the Backlash: Organizing against Real Estate Abuse in a "Transitional" Urban Neighborhood -- The FHA in the City: Red Lines and the Origins of the Urban Reinvestment Movement -- It's Our Money: Defending Financial Common Sense in a Collapsin…
"The story of how American banks helped disenfranchise nonwhite urbanities and condemn to blight the very neighborhoods that needed the most investment is infuriating. And yet, by digging into the history of urban finance, Rebecca Marchiel here illuminates how urban activists ch…
Machine generated contents note: 1. Politics, markets, and boundaries; 2. Building a government out-of-sight, 1932-1949; 3. 'To create and divert'; 4. Breaching the blockades of custom and code; 5. Bankers in the bedroom; 6. From public housing to homeownership; 7. Markets, marg…
"To understand the 2008 financial crisis, Neil Fligstein looks to the business models of the big US banks. He shows how firms got hooked on mortgages-originating them, securitizing them, selling those securities, and even buying the same securities. In time their addiction nearl…
An in-depth look at why a commercial real estate collapse is inevitable, and how to survive it. The Commercial Real Estate Tsunami is the first book to address the phenomenon of the pending wave of commercial debt maturities coming due in the next five years, and the impact thos…
"Explores what caused the housing and mortgage crisis and provides remedies to repair the damage to ensure fairness, protect consumers, and guarantee soundness of the financial system without stifling innovation and overly restricting access to credit and consumer choice"--Provi…
"An institutional investor's guide to the burgeoning field of reverse mortgage securitization Reverse Mortgages and Linked Securities is a contributed title comprising many of the leading minds in the Home Equity Conversion Mortgages (HECM) industry, including reverse mortgage l…
Dissects the current state of consumer and mortgage credit in the United States and helps point the way out of the current impasse - Provided by publisher