Safe as Houses?: The Uneven Integration of Housing, Mortgage, and Financial Markets

by Susan J. Smith

Book Overview

This is a book about the risks and rewards of home ownership in the 21st century. Using a range of vivid examples, it shows how housing markets work to concentrate wealth into property, how the role of mortgage markets has changed, and how financial markets have failed to manage the credit and investment risks to which home occupiers are exposed.

A clear-sighted view of the problems of the housing economy, Safe as Houses? makes complex economic...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199565562
• ISBN13: 9780199565566
• Release Date: September 2024
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 288 Pages