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- Title
Underwriting suburbanization: The National Housing Act and the Canadian city Garantir la périurbanisation : la Loi nationale sur l'habitation et la ville canadienne.
- Authors
Bélec, John
- Abstract
An enduring theme in Canadian federal housing policy is promotion of home ownership through state-supported institutional mortgage finance. This article studies National Housing Act (NHA) mortgage lending that occurred in Vancouver in 1951, at the outset of the post-war era. The Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC) archival mortgage files, which constitute the data source for this article, have rarely been used in academic scholarship and never previously for study of NHA lending patterns. The objective of this study is twofold: (1) to provide a detailed description of such lending in Vancouver for 1951, identify trends in the data, and make comparisons with the 1951 Census; and (2) evaluate a widespread view in the literature that the NHA promoted post-war suburbanization. The article also demonstrates the potential utility of this unique data source for the study of Canadian urban geography.
- Subjects
CANADA; SUBURBANIZATION; HOUSING policy; HOME ownership; MORTGAGES; HOUSING finance; URBAN geography
- Publication
Canadian Geographer, 2015, Vol 59, Issue 3, p341
- ISSN
0008-3658
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/cag.12175