"This book examines the role of Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and other key players in the American mortgage market, in precipitating the current global financial crisis. From President Clinton's announcement of the 'National Home Ownership Strategy' in 1995 to its collapse in 2008, t…
Critical perspectives on housing
Critical perspectives on housing
by Hartman, Chester W., Bratt, Rachel G., Meyerson, Ann
An investigation of the practice of "commoning" in urban housing and its necessity for challenging economic injustice in our rapidly gentrifying cities Provoked by mass evictions and the onset of gentrification in the 1970s, tenants in Washington, D.C., began forming cooperative…
Housing prices have developed quite differently in European Countries and in the US over the past decade. Austria faced very moderate price increases in comparison to countries like Spain, UK or some Central Eastern Europe countries. Changes in housing prices can generate not on…
"Housing finance structures and Institutional and regulatory/fiscal aspects in housing have changed significantly in recent years. This book examines the development in housing markets in Europe and the US, and looks at ways to make housing more affordable and housing market dev…
In the United States, homeownership is synonymous with economic security and middle-class status. It has played this role in American life for almost a century, and as a result, homeownership's centrality to Americans' economic lives has come to seem natural and inevitable. But …
