Ebook {Epub PDF} Our Lot: How Real Estate Came to Own Us by Alyssa Katz

 · Alyssa Katz does so in her book Our Lot: How Real Estate Came to Own Us. Katz gets to the nub of it beautifully on page 3: Owning homes would serve as a force to better the world — to build stronger families, more pleasant communities, financial security, a sharing of wealth through generations. She is the author of Our Lot: How Real Estate Came to Own Us (Bloomsbury, ), about the making of the mortgage crisis. Alyssa was previously editor of The New York World, an investigative newsroom embedded at Columbia Journalism School, and of City Limits, an award-winning magazine investigating the institutions and poli Alyssa Katz is a member of the editorial board of the New York Daily News/5. Our Lot tells how an entire nation got swept up in real estate mania, and it casts the business story—the collapse of the subprime empire and the global impact it had on the economy—as part of a project of social engineering beginning in the s by the U.S. government to make homeownership available to those who had never been able to attain it before.

Alyssa Katz is a member of the editorial board of the New York Daily News. She is the author of Our Lot: How Real Estate Came to Own Us (Bloomsbury, ), about the making of the mortgage crisis. Alyssa was previously editor of The New York World, an investigative newsroom embedded at Columbia Journalism School, and of City Limits, an award. How the homes we live in turned into the monsters that ate our economy and how the United States became a nation obsessed with real estate. Our Lot tells how an entire nation got swept up in real estate mania, and it casts the business story—the collapse of the mortgage markets and its global impact on the economy—as the product of a decades-long project of social engineering by the U.S. Alyssa Katz. Alyssa is a deputy editor with THE CITY and a former member of the NY Daily News editorial board. Previously, Katz was editor of The New York World and City Limits. She is the author of "The Influence Machine: The U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the Corporate Capture of American Life" and "Our Lot: How Real Estate Came to Own Us.".

“Our Lot is a page-turning tale of how a real estate boom was conjured on a foundation of false hopes and Wall Street alchemy. Alyssa Katz digs deeply into the devastation that reckless lending and cynical speculation visited upon American places like Cleveland, Ohio, and Lee County, Florida. Alyssa is a deputy editor with THE CITY and a former member of the NY Daily News editorial board. Previously, Katz was editor of The New York World and City Limits. She is the author of "The Influence Machine: The U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the Corporate Capture of American Life" and "Our Lot: How Real Estate Came to Own Us.". Alyssa Katz begins Our Lot: How Real Estate Came to Own Us, her enlightening investigation of the housing bubble and ensuing bust, with Gale Cincotta, a Chicago housewife turned neighborhood activist. Cincotta gained national prominence — and hero status — fighting the practice of redlining, the refusal of mortgage lenders to loan to minorities and the poor.