Borrowing to live consumer and mortgage credit revisited (Joint Center for Housing Studies, Harvard University, 2008)
Includes bibliographical references and index
Introduction : borrowing to live / Nicolas P. Retsinas and Eric S. Belsky -- Consumer and mortgage credit at the crossroads / Eric S. Belsky, Ren S. Essene, and Nicholas P. Retsinas -- Where does it go? Spending by the financially constrained / Shawn Cole, John Thompson, and Peter Tufano -- Financial decisionmaking processes of low-income individuals / Edna R. Sawady and Jennifer Tescher -- The legal infrastructure of subprime and nontraditional home mortgages / Patricia A. McCoy and Elizabeth Renuart -- The impact of state antipredatory lending laws : policy implications and insights / Raphael W. Bostic [and others] -- Behaviorally informed home mortgage credit regulation / Michael S. Barr, Sendhil Mullainathan, and Eldar Shafir -- Interventions in mortgage default : policies and practices to prevent home loss and lower costs / Amy Crews Cutts and William A. Merrill -- Looking beyond our shores : consumer protection regulation lessons from the United Kingdom / Elaine Kempson
"Dissects the current state of consumer and mortgage credit in the United States and helps point the way out of the current impasse"--Provided by publisher