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NYT Book Review
In the New York Times book review, Tom Vanderbilt takes on Our Lot alongside Busted, Edmund Andrews’ mortgage madness memoir. Traffic author Vanderbilt calls Our Lot:
a trenchant chronicle of how “all that had been sacred about home lending” was upended, through a series of government policies that were enacted with seemingly noble intentions — broadening home ownership and priming the economic pump — but ended up turning homes into profit centers rather than places to live.
Plus you can check out an Our Lot excerpt, from Chapter 1.
How the homes we live in turned into the monsters that ate our economy and the United States became a nation obsessed with real estate.