Tierra y Libertad : Land, Liberty, and Latino Housing / Steven W. Bender.
Bender, Steven W., author.
2010
HD7288.72.U5 B46 2016
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Title Tierra y Libertad : Land, Liberty, and Latino Housing / Steven W. Bender.
Author Bender, Steven W., author.
ISBN 9780814739136
Published New York, NY : : New York University Press, [2010]
Copyright ©2010
Language English
Language Note In English.
Description 1 online resource
Call Number HD7288.72.U5 B46 2016
Dewey Decimal Classification 363.59968073
Summary One of the quintessential goals of the American Dream is to own land and a home, a place to raise one's family and prove one's prosperity. Particularly for immigrant families, home ownership is a way to assimilate into American culture and community. However, Latinos, who make up the country's largest minority population, have largely been unable to gain this level of inclusion. Instead, they are forced to cling to the fringes of property rights and ownership through overcrowded rentals, transitory living arrangements, and, at best, home acquisitions through subprime lenders.In Tierra y Libertad, Steven W. Bender traces the history of Latinos' struggle for adequate housing opportunities, from the nineteenth century to today's anti-immigrant policies and national mortgage crisis. Spanning southwest to northeast, rural to urban, Bender analyzes the legal hurdles that prevent better housing opportunities and offers ways to approach sweeping legal reform. Tierra y Libertad combines historical, cultural, legal, and personal perspectives to document the Latino community's ongoing struggle to make America home.
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Series Citizenship and Migration in the Americas ; ; 8
In New York University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013
Available in Other Form print 9780814787229
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Frontmatter
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I. Loss
1. Loss and Lettuce The César Chávez Legacy
2. Southwest Ranchos
3. Fields of Dreams
4. Loss in the Tortilla Flats
5. Lenders and Loss
Part II. Exclusion
6. Exclusion of Undocumented Immigrants
7. Exclusion by Public Law
8. Exclusion by Private Law
Part III. Geographic Examples of Loss and Exclusion
9. Born in East L.A.
10. Little Havana
11. Spanish Harlem
Part IV. Reclamation and Reform
12. Tierra y Libertad
13. Policy Considerations in Formulating Housing Reform
14. Lowering the Cost of Housing and Credit
15. Equity for Latino/as and the Poor
Conclusion
Notes
Index
About the Author

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