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  • Category: Books (Social Science)
  • Author:  Martin, Isaac, Niedt, Christopher
  • Author:  Martin, Isaac, Niedt, Christopher
  • ISBN-10:  0804795134
  • ISBN-10:  0804795134
  • ISBN-13:  9780804795135
  • ISBN-13:  9780804795135
  • Publisher:  Stanford Briefs
  • Publisher:  Stanford Briefs
  • Pages:  112
  • Pages:  112
  • Binding:  Paperback
  • Binding:  Paperback
  • Pub Date:  01-May-2015
  • Pub Date:  01-May-2015
  • SKU:  0804795134-11-MING
  • SKU:  0804795134-11-MING
  • Item ID: 100006249
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From 2007 to 2012, almost five percent of American adultsabout ten million peoplelost their homes because they could not make mortgage payments. The scale of this home mortgage crisis is unprecedentedand it's not over. Foreclosures still displace more American homeowners every year than at any time before the twenty-first century. The dispossession and forced displacement of American families affects their health, educational success, and access to jobs. It continues to block any real recovery in the hardest-hit communities.

While we now know a lot about how this crisis affected the global economy, we still know very little about how it affected the people who lost their homes.Foreclosed Americaoffers the first representative portrait of those peoplewho they are, how and where they live after losing their homes, and what they have to say about their finances, their neighborhoods, and American politics. It is a sobering picture of Americans down on their luck, and of a crisis that is testing American democracy.

Isaac Martin and Christopher Niedt offer the most compelling portrait yet of the people and communities affected by the foreclosure crisis. In their brisk analysis, they provide an autopsy of the crisis and the anemic policy response. With an unrelenting focus on people, they deepen the democratic imperatives that must inform the housing policies of the future.
Contents and Abstracts
1Ten million people
chapter abstract

This chapter describes the mortgage foreclosure crisis from the standpoint of mortgage borrowers. It begins with an overview of the typical foreclosure process. It narrates how deregulation of mortgage lending and secondary mortgage markets led to a bubble, and then to the historic crash in 2007. It revlcÀ