A Memphis Mirage: How Home Mortgage Alternatives and Increased Equity Firm Ownership Diminish Wealth in Low-Income Communities

Authors

Wade Rathke, ACORN International
Dine Butler, ACORN International

Abstract

The authors examine how large equity firms diminished home wealth in low-income neighborhoods in Memphis and the nation in the years following the Great Recession.

Recommended Citation

Rathke, Wade and Butler, Dine (2019) "A Memphis Mirage: How Home Mortgage Alternatives and Increased Equity Firm Ownership Diminish Wealth in Low-Income Communities," The Hooks Institute Policy Papers: Vol. 2019, Article 4.
Available at: https://digitalcommons.memphis.edu/hookspolicypapers/vol2019/iss1/4