Suburban inequality is the focus of this double issue of RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation
Journal of the Social Sciences. This introduction addresses the limited related scholarship …

Financial violence is racial violence: geographies of housing financialization spatialize
hierarchies of death-dealing racial difference. However, research concerned with housing …

In the US and UK, saving and borrowing routines have changed radically and become
closely bound-up with the capital markets of global finance. As mutual funds have increased …

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 …

Gentrification changes the neighborhood and family contexts in which children are
socialized—for better and worse—yet little is known about its consequences for youth. This …

Foreclosures of single-family mortgages have increased dramatically in many parts of the
US in recent years. Much of this has been tied to the rise of higher-risk subprime mortgage …

Utilizing research from the US, Italy, and the Netherlands, Place, Exclusion and Mortgage
Markets presents an in depth examination of the practice of redlining and the broader …

This paper offers an interpretation of how housing markets work which complements more
traditional economic approaches. Building on a wider movement within cultural economy …

For decades community activists fought to increase access to capital for disinvested
communities. Now community activists question whether communities have access to capital …

Objective. Research on widespread loan failures suggests that many of the mortgage loans
that were made since 2000 were of a deceptive or predatory nature. This study explores the …