Since the classic work of Henri Lefebvre and David Harvey, the 'secondary circuit of
capital'has been a focal point for debate among critical urban scholars. Against the …

The author examines the US real estate sector to show how the state shapes global real
estate flows and networks of activity through the creation and control of liquid resources. The …

This book provides the most comprehensive examination of community reinvestment and
fair lending problems and policies currently available. It outlines the history of lending …

This chapter examines the current crisis within the US housing finance sector as an
illustration of the contradictions of capital circulation as expressed in the tendency of capital …

One of the most important outcomes of federal reregulation of the financial services sector
since 1989 has been the completion of the shift from locally organized flows of credit to the …

Background Two government sponsored enterprises (GSEs) play a dominant role in
housing finance markets: Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. In 1998, Fannie Mae and Freddie …

This study longitudinally compares the characteristics of loans made or bought by different
institutions to see which types of lenders lead the mortgage finance industry in making credit …

Have mortgage lending reforms during the first half of the 1990s been associated with
improvements in the home-ownership prospects of black residents? Have the spatial …

Recent scholarship on race and ethnicity has unpacked taken-for-granted categories of
difference and the processes of social construction of racialized identities. In the USA …

Access to credit in lower‐income communities has become an increasingly central public
policy issue in financial sector regulation over the past five years. One important reform was …