The killing fields of East New York: the first subprime mortgage scandal, a white-collar crime spree, and the collapse of an American neighborhood

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Horn, Stacy

Horn, Stacy

Duraleigh Road Community
Morrisville Community
North Regional
Wake Forest Community

Adult Non-Fiction

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Eva H. Perry Regional - Adult Non-Fiction
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"On a warm summer evening in 1991, seventeen-year-old Julia Parker was murdered in the Brooklyn neighborhood of East New York. An area known for an exorbitant level of violence and crime, East New York had come to be known as the Killing Fields. In the six months after Julia Parker's death, 62 more people were murdered in the same area. In the early 1990s, murder rates in the neighborhood climbed to the highest in NYPD history. East New York was dying. But how did this once thriving, diverse, family neighborhood fall into such ruin? The answer can be found two decades earlier. In response to redlining and discriminatory housing practices, the Johnson administration passed the Housing and Urban Development Act in 1968. The Federal Housing Authority aimed to use this piece of legislation to help low-income families of color finally achieve homeownership. But they could never have predicted how banks, lenders, realtors, and corrupt FHA officials themselves would use the newly passed law to make victims of the very people they were supposed to help, and the devastation they would leave in their wake. A compulsively readable hybrid of true crime and investigative journalism, The Killing Fields of East New York reveals how white-collar crime reduced a prospering neighborhood to abandoned buildings and empty lots. Following the dual threads of the hunt for the network of criminals behind the first subprime mortgage scandal and the ensuing downfall of East New York, Stacy Horn weaves a compelling narrative of government failure, a desperate community, and ultimately the largest series of mortgage fraud prosecutions in American history."--

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364.1 HORN

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Wake County Public Libraries

Cary Regional
Duraleigh Road Community
Eva H. Perry Regional
Morrisville Community
North Regional
Southeast Regional
Wake Forest Community

9781638931225

2025

Gillian Flynn Books, a Zando imprint

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Commercial crimes -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 20th century
Creative nonfiction
East New York (New York, N.Y.) -- History -- 20th century
Informational works
Loans -- Corrupt practices -- New York (State) -- New York
New York (N.Y.) -- History -- 20th century
Political corruption -- New York (State) -- New York
Subprime mortgage loans
Subprime mortgage loans -- Corrupt practices -- New York (State) -- New York
Subprime mortgage loans -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 20th century
True crime stories
United States. -- Federal Housing Administration -- History -- 20th century
White collar crimes -- New York (State) -- New York

The killing fields of East New York : the first subprime mortgage scandal, a white-collar crime spree, and the collapse of an American neighborhood

The killing fields of East New York : the first subprime mortgage scandal, a white-collar crime spree, and the collapse of an American neighborhood / Stacy Horn

The killing fields of East New York

the first subprime mortgage scandal, a white-collar crime spree, and the collapse of an American neighborhood

Commercial crimes
Corrupt practices
History
Loans
Political corruption
Subprime mortgage loans
White collar crimes