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Conventional wisdom held that housing prices couldn't fall. But the spectacular boom and bust of the housing market during the first decade of the twenty-first century and millions of foreclosed homeowners have made it clear that housing is no different from any other asset in its ability to climb and crash. This book looks at what happened to prices and construction both during and after the housing boom in different parts of the American housing market, accounting for why certain areas experienced less volatility than others. It then examines the causes of the boom and bust, including the av ... More
Keywords: housing prices, housing market, homeowners, housing boom, bust, credit, risk reduction, securitization
Print publication date: 2013 | Print ISBN-13: 9780226030586 |
Published to Chicago Scholarship Online: January 2014 | DOI:10.7208/chicago/9780226030616.001.0001 |
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