Discriminating Risk
Subtitle: The U.S. Mortgage Lending Industry in the Twentieth Century
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: June 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780801440663
Subjects: Banking; Racism & racial discrimination; Urban & municipal planning; Real Estate - Mortgages; Discrimination & Racism; Business/Economics; Political Science; Business & Economics; Business / Economics / Finance; Public Policy - City Planning & Urban Dev.; USA; Discrimination in housing; Banks & Banking; Corporate & Business History - General; United States; Chicago; Illinois; Mortgage loans
Description: Mortgage lenders in the US, Stuart contends, are embedded in and shape a social context that can best be understood in terms of rules, networks and the production of space. This history of lenders' risk criteria reveals that they were synthesized from rules of thumb and untested theories.