Absolute Rent and the Structuring of Space By Governmental and Financial Institutions

Federal mortgage insurance and the characteristics of intraurban movers in the United States

“…FHA's goals as stated in the National Housing Act of 1934 were more concerned with helping to put the economy back on its feet through the construction industry than with helping Americans gain better housing. In addition, housing in the U.S. economy is considered to be a countercyclical economic tool, that is, it is used to help raise the country out of recessions (Berkman, 1979, Harvey andChatterjee, 1974;Haar, 1960). The ties between housing and the rest of the economy complicate the effects of policy.…”

Deconstructing Coincidence: How Middle-Class Households use Various Forms of Capital to Find a Home

“…Their work argued that housing is not something that is wittingly chosen as a market of supply and demand, but that more durable and structural relations exist between social position and (access to) housing. The central position of housing in debates on class formation and reproduction has been maintained by scholars such as Harvey & Chatterjee (1974) and Savage, Barlow, Dickens & Fielding (1992) . The central questions in this debate were: how does the housing system (re)produce class; and how does the housing system produce spatial configurations of class.…”

Housing Finance in Early 20th Century Suburban Toronto

“…Studies of the United States city associate a high proportion of cash sales with of redlining or discriminatory lending practices. 16 Studies of residential mortgage-lending practices in the contemporary American city have discovered higher proportions of cash sales in the less affluent inner city. A divergent pattern has been found in present-day Toronto.…”