Foreclosed : high-risk lending, deregulation, and the undermining of America's mortgage market : with a new preface / Dan Immergluck.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Immergluck, Daniel.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mortgage loans--United States.

Mortgage loans.

Mortgage loans--Government policy--United States.

Subprime mortgage loans--United States.

Subprime mortgage loans.

Foreclosure--United States.

Foreclosure.

Financial services industry--Deregulation--United States.

Financial services industry.

Housing--Finance--Government policy--United States.

Housing.

Financial crises--United States.

Financial crises.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (280 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In 2007 and 2008, the United States has observed, with some horror, the explosion and collapse of entire segments of the housing market, especially those driven by subprime and alternative or "exotic" home mortgage lending. Foreclosed explains the rise of high-risk lending and why these newer types of loans-and their associated regulatory infrastructure-failed in substantial ways. Dan Immergluck narrates the boom in subprime and exotic loans, recounting how financial innovations and deregulation facilitated excessive risk-taking, and how these loans have harmed different populations and communities. Immergluck, who has been working, researching, and writing on issues tied to housing finance and neighborhood change for almost twenty years, has an intimate knowledge of the promotion of home ownership and the history of mortgages in the United States. The changes to the mortgage market over the past fifteen years-including the securitization of mortgages and the failure of regulators to maintain control over a much riskier array of mortgage products-led, he finds, inexorably to the current crisis. After describing the development of generally stable and risk-limiting mortgage markets throughout much of the twentieth century, Foreclosed details how federal policy-makers failed to regulate the new high-risk lending markets that arose in the late 1990's and early 2000's. The book also examines federal, state, and local efforts to deal with the mortgage and foreclosure crisis of 2007 and 2008. Immergluck draws upon his wealth of experience to provide an overarching set of principles and a detailed set of policy recommendations for "righting the ship" of U.S. housing finance in ways that will promote affordable yet sustainable home ownership as an option for a broad set of households and communities. The 2011 edition features a new preface by the author addressing the ongoing global economic crisis and the impact of U.S. financial reform efforts on the mortgage system.

Contents:

U.S. mortgage market development and federal policy to the early 1990s

Mortgage market disparities and the dual regulatory system in the twentieth century

The high-risk revolution

Mortgage market breakdown : the contributions of transactional failures, conflicts of interest, and global capital surpluses

The economic and social costs of high-risk mortgage lending

High-risk lending and public policy, 1995-2008

Policies for fair, affordable, and sustainable mortgage markets.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780801477140

080147714X

9780801457586

0801457580

9780801458828

080145882X

OCLC:

732957151