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Tierra y Libertad - Land, Liberty, and Latino Housing (Hardcover)
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Tierra y Libertad - Land, Liberty, and Latino Housing (Hardcover)
Series: Citizenship and Migration in the Americas
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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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