The New Deal, race, and home ownership in the 1920s and 1930s

Trevor M. Kollmann, Price V. Fishback

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Abstract

Many federal government housing policies began during the New Deal of the 1930s. Many claim that minorities benefited less from these policies than whites. We estimate the relationships between policies in the 1920s and 1930s and black and white home ownership in farm and nonfarm settings using a pseudo-panel of repeated crosssections of households in 1920, 1930, and 1940 matched with policy measures in 460 state economic areas. The policies examined include FHA mortgage insurance, HOLC loan refinancing, state mortgage moratoria, farm loan programs, public housing, public works and relief, and payments to farmers to take land out of production.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)366-370
Number of pages5
JournalAmerican Economic Review
Volume101
Issue number3
DOIs
StatePublished - May 2011

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Economics and Econometrics

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