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Lessons from the Housing Crisis
Author(s) -
Schwartz Alex
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
family and consumer sciences research journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.372
H-Index - 31
eISSN - 1552-3934
pISSN - 1077-727X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1552-3934.2011.02084.x
Subject(s) - financial crisis , recession , state (computer science) , government (linguistics) , sketch , value (mathematics) , ideology , political science , economics , political economy , public policy , economic policy , economic growth , politics , keynesian economics , law , linguistics , philosophy , algorithm , machine learning , computer science
Public discourse on the causes and consequences of the housing crisis, and the appropriate policy responses, has been ideological and partisan. The collapse of the housing bubble in 2007 and the subsequent financial crisis and deep recession could and should have prompted the nation to reconsider many core assumptions about the role of the market in the housing finance system and about the value of homeownership, among many other questions, however, this was not to be. In this essay I draw some lessons from the crisis, both for public policy and for education. To frame the discussion, I first sketch out the state of the nation’s housing and mortgage markets as of the spring of 2011, and review the actions that the federal government has taken to date to address the crisis and revive the housing market.