Subprime Lending and its Impacts on Rural Housing Markets
| Autor: | John Cromartie, Peter B. Nelson |
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| Rok vydání: | 2014 |
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education.field_of_study
Sociology and Political Science biology Geography Planning and Development Population biology.organism_classification Metropolitan area Rural housing Great recession Urban Studies Market economy Regional variation Workforce Development economics Economics Subprime lending Phoenix education |
| Zdroj: | Housing and Society. 41:145-176 |
| ISSN: | 2376-0923 0888-2746 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/08882746.2014.11430626 |
| Popis: | Housing markets and mortgage lending played critical roles in the ‘Great Recession,’yet the ways in which this recent and acute economic crisis have played out within rural and small town America are poorly understood. The narrow research and media focus on overheated housing markets in rapidly growing metropolitan areas such as Las Vegas or Phoenix is understandable, yet housing plays a somewhat distinct role in rural communities where a larger share of the population owns their own home, and a larger proportion of the workforce is employed in the home construction sector. This paper draws on an array of publically available data sources to examine various dimensions of nonmetropolitan subprime lending and housing markets at different spatial scales over the time period leading up to and following the ‘Great Recession. ‘ At the county level, analysis revealed striking regional variation in nonmetropolitan subprime lending. Individual-level analysis highlights the racial, economic, and geographic ... |
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