At the boundaries of homeownership: credit, discrimination, and the American state (1 Edition.)

In the US, 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 20th 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.