Well Worth Saving: How the New Deal Safeguarded Home Ownership (National Bureau of Economic Research Series on Long-Term Factors in Economi)

by Jonathan Rose (Author), Kenneth Snowden (Author), Price Fishback (Author)

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  Illustrated
  2013

  $38.61

  Tells the story of the disastrous housing market during the Great Depression and the extent to which an immensely popular New Deal relief program, the Home Owners' Loan Corporation (HOLC), was able to stem foreclosures by buying distressed mortgages from lenders and refinancing them.