TY - BOOK ID - 85464489 TI - At the Boundaries of Homeownership : Credit, Discrimination, and the American State PY - 2018 SN - 1108386547 1108390145 1108380050 1108422055 1108434525 PB - New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Home ownership KW - Housing KW - Mortgage loans KW - Ownership of homes KW - Real estate business KW - House buying KW - Government policy KW - Finance. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:85464489 AB - In the United States, homeownership is synonymous with economic security and middle-class status. It has played this role in American life for almost a century, and as a result, homeownership's centrality to Americans' economic lives has come to seem natural and inevitable. But this state of affairs did not develop spontaneously or inexorably. On the contrary, it was the product of federal government policies, established during the 1930s and developed over the course of the twentieth century. At the Boundaries of Homeownership traces how the government's role in this became submerged from public view and how several groups who were locked out of homeownership came to recognize and reveal the role of the government. Through organizing and activism, these boundary groups transformed laws and private practices governing determinations of credit-worthiness. This book describes the important policy consequences of their achievements and the implications for how we understand American statebuilding. ER -