Well Worth Saving - How the New Deal Safeguarded Home Ownership

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Summary

Tells the story of the disastrous housing market during the Great Depression and the extent to which an immensely popular New Deal relief program, the Home Owners' Loan Corporation (HOLC), was able to stem foreclosures by buying distressed mortgages from lenders and refinancing them.

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• Authors: Price Fishback, Price V. Fishback, Price V. Rose Fishback, Fishback Price V., Jonathan Rose, Jonathan Fishback Rose, Kenneth Snowden, Snowden Kenneth
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 04.10.2013
• EAN: 9780226082448
• ISBN: 978-0-226-08244-8
• No. of pages: 192
• Series: National Bureau of Economic Re; National Bureau of Economic Research - Long Term Factors in Economic Development; National Bureau of Economic Research - Long Term Factors in Economic Development; NBER-Long Term Factors (CHUP); National Bureau of Economic Research Series on Long-Term Factors in Economi
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business > General, dictionaries; USA, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economic History, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, HISTORY / United States / 20th Century, Economic history, United States of America, USA, History of the Americas, c 1919 to c 1939 (Inter-war period), c 1918 to c 1939 (Inter-war period)