Geographers have started studying residential (housing) and commercial real estate
(offices, retail, leisure) at the intersection of financial and urban geographies to understand …

This first textbook on the topic of gentrification is written for upper-level undergraduates in
geography, sociology, and planning. The gentrification of urban areas has accelerated …

Financialization is often defined a pattern of accumulation in which profit-making occurs
increasingly through financial channels rather than through trade and commodity …

In this article, we describe how residential segregation and individual racial disparities
generate racialized patterns of subprime lending and lead to financial loss among black …

Real estate is, by definition, local as it is spatially fixed. Mortgage lending, however, has
developed from a local to a national market and is increasingly a global market today. An …

The worst global financial crisis since the Great Depression has drawn worldwide attention
to America's subprime mortgage sector and its linkages with predatory exploitation in …

Subprime mortgage lending in the early 2000s was a leading cause of the Great Recession.
From 2003 to 2006, subprime loans jumped from 7.6% of the mortgage market to 20.1 …

In 2008, there will be at least 2.5 million new foreclosures in the United States. Record levels
of mortgage delinquency, default, and foreclosure are causing widespread hardship in cities …

In this paper we offer a conceptualization of mortgage foreclosure as serial displacement by
highlighting the current crisis in the context of historically repeated extraction of capital …

This article considers how mortgage markets evolved beyond protective legislation, creating
a policy gap conducive to new forms of gender inequity in housing and lending. In the early …