Place, exclusion, and mortgage markets /

• Main Author: Aalbers, Manuel
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Malden : Wiley-Blackwell, 2011.
• Series: Studies in urban and social change.
• Subjects: Discrimination in mortgage loans > Case studies.; Mortgages > Case studies.; Marginality, Social > Case studies.; Business.; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Real Estate > Mortgages.; Discrimination in mortgage loans.; Marginality, Social.; Mortgages.; Electronic books.; Case studies.

"Just as in society, the mortgage market may exclude people on the basis of place, as well as race. Place-based exclusion in the mortgage market often takes the form of "redlining," a tacit agreement among lending institutions to delineate sections of cities into areas where no home m...