Place, exclusion, and mortgage markets

"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...

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Main Author: Aalbers, Manuel
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Malden, Mass. : Wiley-Blackwell, 2011.
Series:Studies in urban and social change.
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Table of Contents:
  • Machine generated contents note: Preface.
  • Introduction.
  • Part I The Exclusion, Urban and Market Lenses.
  • 1 Social and Financial Exclusion.
  • 1.1 Social Exclusion.
  • 1.2 Financial Exclusion.
  • 1.3 How Space and Housing enter the Idea of Exclusion.
  • 2 A Socio-Spatial Approach.
  • 2.1 David Harvey, Capital Switching and Urban Development.
  • 2.2 A Socio-Spatial Approach to Urban Development.
  • 2.3 Exploratory Comparative Research with Contrasting Cases.
  • 3 Markets, Institutions, Risk, Credit Scoring.
  • 3.1 The Market as an Institution.
  • 3.2 Homeownership in the Risk Society.
  • 3.3 Risk Selection and Credit Scoring.
  • 3.4 Difficulties and Risk.
  • Part II Redlining Research in the US, Italy and the Netherlands.
  • 4 The US: One Century of Redlining.
  • 4.1 On the Origins of Mortgage Markets and Redlining.
  • 4.2 Redlining Research Since the 1970s.
  • 4.3 Redlining Readdressed.
  • 4.4 The Rise of Securitization and Subprime Lending.
  • 5 Italy: Capital Switching in Milan.
  • 5.1 Housing in Italy.
  • 5.2 The Italian Mortgage Market.
  • 5.3 Economy, Migrants and Housing in Milan.
  • 5.4 The Milanese Geography of Access to Mortgage Loans.
  • 5.5 Capital Switching in Milan.
  • 6 The Netherlands: Colored Maps.
  • 6.1 Housing in the Netherlands.
  • 6.2 The Dutch Mortgage Market.
  • 6.3 Ethnic Minorities and Discrimination.
  • 6.4 The Socio-Spatial Structure of Rotterdam.
  • 6.5 The Colored Map of Rotterdam (1980-1999).
  • 6.6 Rotterdam versus Amsterdam (1999-2001).
  • 6.7 Rotterdam, The Hague and Arnhem (2005-2006).
  • 6.8 Redlining Redux: Rotterdam and The Hague in the Financial Crisis (2008-2010).
  • Photo Essay The Tarwewijk, Rotterdam.
  • Part III Conclusions.
  • 7 The Globalization of Redlining?
  • 7.1 Redlining in the US.
  • 7.2 Credit Scoring: The Silent Globalization of the Mortgage Market.
  • 7.3 City Forces.
  • 7.4 Neighborhood Forces.
  • 7.5 National Forces.
  • 7.6 Markets and Institutions Preventing Redlining.
  • 7.7 The Endemic Nature of Redlining.
  • References.
  • Index.