From Redlining to Subprime Lending: How Neighborhood Narratives Mask Financial Distress in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn

Housing Policy Debate

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 714-737

  Botein, Hilary ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

homeownership; mortgages; neighborhood; predatory lending

Indexed keywords

EID: 84885961297     PISSN: 10511482     EISSN: 2152050X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10511482.2013.818052     Document Type: Article

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