Our lot
Subtitle: how real estate came to own us
By: Alyssa Katz.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 278
ISBN-13: 9781596914797
Subjects: Real estate business -- United States -- Marketing; Real estate business -- United States -- Managing
Description: "In 'OUr Lot', Alyssa Katz goes back to the origins of the mortgage crisis that has wrecked the economy, revealing the real estate bubble as the product of decades--long project of social and financial engineering by the U.S. government to make the American Dream of homeownership possible for those who had never been able to attain it before" -- inside cover.
Table of contents: title: Almost like a conspiracy; title: The rising tide; title: Subprime time; title: Into oblivion; title: Reaching the limits; title: Crime spree; title: Huffing the fumes; title: Tenants no more; title: Epilogue : returning home.