The Subprime State of Race

The Blackwell Companion to the Economics of Housing: The Housing Wealth of Nations

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 381-413

  Wyly, Elvin K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Advent of risk based pricing key to innovations in US mortgage market; African American and Hispanic Latino borrowers ending up with subprime credits; Central dilemma of credit rationing asymmetric information; Credit crunch and curious disappearance of race; Equal Credit Opportunity Act of 1974, Home Mortgage Disclosure Act (HMDA) statutes embodying turning point in American race relations; Interaction of racial inequalities with securitization networks; Political spectrum in USA, racial and ethnic minorities dramatic expansion of lending to minorities; Sidaway's call in mapping geographies of race and to counter racist conservative discourse; Subprime from risk based pricing to racial state; Subprime state of race

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EID: 80051676193     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444317978.ch17     Document Type: Chapter

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