Racial Dynamics of Subprime Mortgage Lending at the Peak

Housing Policy Debate

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 328-349

  Faber, Jacob W ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

homeownership; minorities; mortgages; predatory lending; segregation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84876977558     PISSN: 10511482     EISSN: 2152050X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10511482.2013.771788     Document Type: Article

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