Study finds foreclosure crisis had significant racial dimensions
Monday, October 4, 2010 - 05:00
in Psychology & Sociology
Although the rise in subprime lending and the ensuing wave of foreclosures was partly a result of market forces that have been well-documented, the foreclosure crisis was also a highly racialized process, according to a study by two Woodrow Wilson School scholars published in the October 2010 issue of the American Sociological Review.