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Homes, Lending, and Wealth Inequality in America Princeton University Podcast (Audio)
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Martin Eakes *80 (WWS) reflects on a lifetime making loans to America's low-income family homeowners and minority small-businesses. Through story and humor, he describes how the success of his work to change lending practices was based on the faith that poor people are better borrowers than rich people and how home ownership is the sinlge best tool for breaking the cycle of poverty and changing the psychology of what people think is possible.
Martin Eakes *80 (WWS) reflects on a lifetime making loans to America's low-income family homeowners and minority small-businesses. Through story and humor, he describes how the success of his work to change lending practices was based on the faith that poor people are better borrowers than rich people and how home ownership is the sinlge best tool for breaking the cycle of poverty and changing the psychology of what people think is possible.
35 min
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