The meaning of value -- Rules for assessing the borrower and managing behavioral risk -- The loan application process -- Constructing housing markets -- Lending discrimination -- Constructing risk
Summary
Mortgage lenders in the US, Stuart contends, are embedded in and shape a social context that can best be understood in terms of rules, networks and the production of space. This history of lenders' risk criteria reveals that they were synthesized from rules of thumb and untested theories
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-240) and index
