Global Housing Markets

This meticulously documented work sets forth the major causes of the greatest asset bubble in world economic history—the American housing bubble, which began in 1940 and collapsed in 2007. • Extracts from major legislation—federal, state, and local—that promoted the creation of the housing bubble • An introductory essay illuminating the

The definitive account of the housing bubble that caused the Great Recession—and earned Wall Street fantastic profits. The American housing bubble of the 2000s caused the worst global financial crisis since the Great Depression. In this definitive account, Adam Levitin and Susan Wachter pinpoint its source: the shift in mortgage

The American Housing Question reframes the question of affordable housing through the concepts of urban citizenship and racism. As the author aptly demonstrates, solving America’s housing question means addressing both the effects of racism on housing and revaluing the notion of the public.

A global look at the reasons behind the recent economiccollapse, and the responses to it The speculative bubble in the housing market began to burst inthe United States in 2007, and has been followed by ruptures invirtually every asset market in almost every country in the world.Each country proposed a

Discusses issues relating to the current housing and mortgage crisis in the United States, including if there should be more government regulation of mortgage lending, who is responsible for the crisis, and what should be done to prevent further crises.