Home Ownership in America: A Socio-Cultural History of Housing in the United States

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Lawrence Samuel

Home Ownership in America

A Socio-Cultural History of Housing in the United States

Lawrence Samuel

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Routledge
01 October 2024

Interdisciplinary studies; Social issues & processes; Social classes; Social theory; Urban & municipal planning

A wide-ranging cultural history centered around the concepts of real estate, the family home, and the American dream, and how they evolved over the years, Home Ownership in America: A Socio-Cultural History of Housing in the United States traces narratives around home ownership from the 1920s to today.

As a product of the emergence of a large middle class during the Roaring Twenties, the modern concept of home ownership continued through the shaky Great Depression years, holding pattern of World War II, and glory days of the postwar era, when home ownership became a reality for much of the White middle class. While the late 1960s and 1970s were difficult years for home ownership as the postwar economic engine ran out of steam, a renaissance took place in the 1980s and 1990s due to tens of millions of baby boomers wanting to nest. Although there have been a few bumps in the road over the last couple of decades, home ownership, or at least the pursuit of it, is once again booming, making the subject as relevant as ever.

With the single-family home central to the American idea and experience, this book touches on a host of issues related to our social divisions of race, gender, and class. Home Ownership in America is a truly interdisciplinary study, crossing over into a wide variety of subjects including sociology, family, urban history/planning, suburban studies, the built environment, public policy, business, finance, economics, politics, architecture, design, technology, and popular and consumer culture.

By: Lawrence Samuel
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 471g
ISBN: 9781032771434
ISBN 10: 1032771437
Pages: 164
Publication Date: 01 October 2024
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Introduction 1. Own Your Own Home 2. A Desirable Social Goal 3. A New Order 4. The World’s Best Buy 5. The Threshold of the Good Life 6. America’s Biggest Business 7. A Fading Fantasy 8. Opening Doors 9. The Ownership Society 10. A House Divided Bibliography

Lawrence R. Samuel is a Miami-based author and independent scholar. He holds a PhD in American Studies from the University of Minnesota and is the author of many books including Diversity in the United States: A Cultural History of the Past Century (Routledge, 2023), Age Friendly: Ending Ageism in America (Routledge, 2022), and The American Middle Class: A Cultural History (Routledge, 2014).

Reviews for Home Ownership in America: A Socio-Cultural History of Housing in the United States

""A fascinating text that covers 100 years of housing ownership in the United States through wars, depressions, recessions, and times of prosperity. Home ownership as an integral part of the American dream is explained and explored from different angles that most of us often overlook. An interesting read for all.” Eli Beracha, Director of the Tibor and Sheila Hollo School of Real Estate at Florida International University ""Home Ownership in America takes a deep dive into one of the most compelling aspects of the American Dream: the ownership of one's own home. Larry Samuel provides a lively, insightful and innovative interdisciplinary examination of the hopes, experiences, and limitations of American home ownership over the last century."" Elaine Tyler May, Regents Professor of American Studies and History at the University of Minnesota