Mechele Dickerson

Homeownership and America's Financial Underclass

Flawed Premises, Broken Promises, New Prescriptions

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Produktbeschreibung

Argues US leaders should re-evaluate housing policies and develop new ones that ensure Americans have access to affordable housing, whether rented or owned.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 284
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Juni 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 152mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9781107663503
• ISBN-10: 1107663504
• Artikelnr.: 40603325

Autorenporträt

Mechele Dickerson is the Arthur L. Moller Chair in Bankruptcy Law and Practice at the University of Texas, Austin School of Law. She is a former Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at the University of Texas Law School and previously taught on the law faculty of William and Mary Law School. She is the author of more than 30 articles, essays and book chapters on consumer debt and bankruptcy, and her writings have appeared in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, the Boston Review, the Austin American-Statesman, the Foundation Press, the Michigan Law Review, the Emory Law Review, the Minnesota Law Review, the Indiana Law Journal, and other law journals.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Chasing the American dream
2. The happy homeownership narrative
3. US support for homeowners
4. The homeownership crisis
5. Homeowner harm and the blame game
6. Flawed premises
7. The burden of home buying while black or Latino
8. The benefits of home buying while black or Latino
9. Homeownership: demographic disparities
10. Outlook and prescription for the future.