Preventing the Next Mortgage Crisis

Dan Immergluck examines the causes and consequences of the great U.S. mortgage crisis, identifying the factors that created the fragile housing finance system, which provided fertile ground for calamity, and providing a pathway forward into a more stable housing system.

Dan Immergluck is a professor in the School of City and Regional Planning at Georgia Tech in Atlanta. He has authored three books, more than 40 articles in scholarly journals and scores of applied research and policy reports. He has testified before Congress and state and local legislative bodies. He has been frequently quoted and cited in the media, including in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, Time Magazine, USA Today and a wide variety of regional and local newspapers.

Chapter 1. Revisiting the Origins of the Subprime Crisis , Chapter 2. The Costs of Foreclosure and the Racialized Shape of the Crisis Chapter 3. The Federal Government to the Rescue? , Chapter 4. Regulating the Mortgage Market , Chapter 5. The Housing Finance Debate , Conclusions and the Way Forward , ,