Well worth saving : how the New Deal safeguarded home ownership /
Fishback, Price Van Meter,author.
Rose, Jonathan Derek,author.
Snowden, Kenneth A.,author.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 161-166) and index.
Introduction -- The patchwork mortgage market in the 1920s -- The mortgage crisis -- Pressures for government action -- The economic rationale for the HOLC -- An HOLC primer -- The lenders' good deal -- The borrowers' good deal -- Repairing mortgage and housing markets -- The cost to taxpayers and subsidies to the housing market -- Conclusion -- Appendix: -- Walking through the analysis of the impact of the HOLC.
Home Owners' Loan Corporation
Mortgage loans
Home ownership
New Deal, 1933-1939.