By 1970s, when the Polks bought their house, the federal government had begun making it easier for the less well off to buy homes. But, Adair says, reform was too often reflexive, rather than measured, and that brought a new set of problems. By the nineteen-nineties, the government had all but mandated that more loans be made to people once considered too risky. Some lenders were eager to venture into the untapped marketplace, and property values (and profits) soared. . . . People who once found it too difficult to get loans, because of where they lived, and who they were, now found it almost too easy.
a) Eviction: The Day They Came for Addie Polk's House, 2008.
b) Ralph Nader, Unsafe at Any Speed, 1965.
c) Jewish Immigrant Abraham Kohn Laments His Wanderings as a Peddler, 1842-1843.
d) 17 Chain Stores Picketed by Sympathizers of Negro Sit-downs, 1960.
