{"56087":{"#nid":"56087","#data":{"type":"event","title":"HTS Guest Speaker Dr. Jennifer Light, Northwestern University","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\n\u0022Nationality and Neighborhood Risk at the Origins of FHA Underwriting\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EHistories of the emergence of federally sanctioned mortgage underwriting in the US have made racial discrimination a central theme. Yet their emphasis on systematic favoritism for whites over blacks tells only part of the story. This project examines how a broader, waning concept of race that encompassed nationality as well as skin color influenced the practice of locational risk rating at the Federal Housing Administration. Using qualitative and quantitative methods to examine the construction of \u0022neighborhood risk\u0022 reveals how, from the introduction of the agency\u0027s underwriting standards, raters depended on a more nuanced population classification scheme in evaluating urban areas. The evidence presented here about the differential treatment of nationality groups points to new directions for studies of the history of housing policy in the United States, and suggests how geographic information systems (GIS) can complement traditional archival methods as an analytic tool.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThis talk is made possible thanks to the generosity of the B \u0026amp; B Stern Foundation\n\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u0022Nationality and Neighborhood Risk at the Origins of FHA Underwriting\u0022","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"\u0022Nationality and Neighborhood Risk at the Origins of FHA Underwriting\u0022"}],"uid":"27332","created_gmt":"2010-05-20 11:44:38","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 01:51:29","author":"Amy D\u0027Unger","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2010-03-15T17:30:00-04:00","event_time_end":"2010-03-15T19:00:00-04:00","event_time_end_last":"2010-03-15T19:00:00-04:00","gmt_time_start":"2010-03-15 21:30:00","gmt_time_end":"2010-03-15 23:00:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2010-03-15 23:00:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1288","name":"School of History and Sociology"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"9406","name":"FHA"},{"id":"1683","name":"history"},{"id":"790","name":"Housing"},{"id":"1841","name":"race"},{"id":"166896","name":"seminar"},{"id":"167053","name":"sociology"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1795","name":"Seminar\/Lecture\/Colloquium"}],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cstrong\u003ESteven Henderson\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESchool of History, Technology, and Society\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:steven.henderson@hts.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EContact Steven Henderson\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E404-894-3196\u003C\/strong\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}