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A World of Homeowners - American Power and the Politics of Housing Aid (Paperback)
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A World of Homeowners - American Power and the Politics of Housing Aid (Paperback)
Series: Historical Studies of Urban America
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Is there anything more American than the ideal of homeownership? In
this groundbreaking work of transnational history, Nancy H. Kwak
reveals how the concept of homeownership became one of America's
major exports and defining characteristics around the world. In the
aftermath of World War II, American advisers urged countries to
pursue greater access to homeownership, arguing it would give
families a literal stake in their nations, jumpstart a productive
home-building industry, fuel economic growth, and raise the
standard of living in their countries, helping to ward off the
specter of communism. A World of Homeowners charts the emergence of
democratic homeownership in the postwar landscape and booming
economy; its evolution as a tool of foreign policy and a vehicle
for international investment in the 1950s, '60s, and '70s; and the
growth of lower-income homeownership programs in the United States
from the 1960s to today. Kwak unravels all these threads, detailing
the complex stories and policy struggles that emerged from a
particularly American vision for global democracy and capitalism.
Ultimately, she argues, the question of who should own homes
where--and how--is intertwined with the most difficult questions
about economy, government, and society.
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