"Just as in society, the mortgage market may exclude people on the basis of place, as well as race. Place-based exclusion in the mortgage market often takes the form of "redlining," a tacit agreement among lending institutions to delineate sections of cities into areas where no home mortgages...

1. Introduction : financialization and houseing studies -- 2. Centring housing in political economy / with Brett Christophers -- 3. The financialization of home and the mortgage market crisis -- 4. The great moderation, the great excess and the global housing crisis -- 5. Financialization and...