Has mortgage capital found an inner‐city spatial fix?

Elvin Wyly, Mona Atia and Daniel Hammel

Housing Policy Debate, 2004, vol. 15, issue 3, 623-685

Abstract: For two generations, urbanists have analyzed how residential mortgage lending reflects and reinforces inner‐city inequality. Yet the basic dichotomies of this literature have been eroded by parallel developments in community organizing, public policy, and restructuring of financial services. Securitization, institutional structure, and increasingly sophisticated market segmentation have altered the relationship between mortgage capital and the inner city, redrawing patterns of exclusionary redlining into more complicated, stratified inclusion into prime and subprime reinvestment flows. In this article, we analyze lending dynamics in neighborhoods at the nexus between gentrified reinvestment and enduring poverty in 23 large U.S. cities. A strong, sustained resurgence of capital investment is woven together with enduring racial‐ethnic exclusion that cannot be blamed on borrower deficiencies. Institutional restructuring and secondary‐market linkages reinforce newer class and racial‐ethnic inequalities through subprime segmentation: Lenders’ willingness to serve black borrowers, for instance, is becoming closely associated with subprime specialization.

Date: 2004
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