Blockbusting in Baltimore the Edmondson Village Story
- List Price: $35.00
- Binding: Paperback
- Publisher: Univ Pr of Kentucky
- Publish date: 10/01/1997
Description:
Like many suburbs, Edmondson Village, a post-WWI rowhouse development with 20,000 residents, saw a dramatic shift in its population between 1955 and 1965. Behind this change lay blockbusting techniques adopted by realtors in which scare tactics were used to encourage white owners to sell cheap, followed by drastic markups for potential black buyers who lacked access to conventional bank mortgages. Both sets of homeowners, argues Edward Orser, were members of an upwardly mobile middle class in search of the American dream.
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