The Description for this book, The Postwar Residential Mortgage Market, will be forthcoming.

This work should be helpful to students of Canadian housing and mortgage markets and to economists who are interested in more than cursory knowledge of the area.

This volume begins to answer these questions, providing a much-needed context for understanding recent events by examining how historical housing and mortgage markets worked—and how they sometimes failed.

Examines problems and developments associated with homebuilding, the housing market, family income, and mortgage financing forecast during next decade.

Well Worth Saving tells the story of the disastrous housing market during the Great Depression and the extent to which an immensely popular New Deal relief program, the Home Owners’ Loan Corporation (HOLC), was able to stem foreclosures ...