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Effect Of Usury Laws On Home Ownership Needs, Richard S. Stoddart, Earl R. Hoover
Effect Of Usury Laws On Home Ownership Needs, Richard S. Stoddart, Earl R. Hoover
Cleveland State Law Review
In this paper we examine usury laws which thwart the thrift industry, particularly savings and loan associations, from entering fully into the needed home financing picture of the 1970's. If there is virtue in owning a home, be it a normal house, mobile home, condominium or a 99-year leasehold, (and the very basis of American life suggests that there is), and if the predicted housing boom is actually to occur, substantial changes should be made in laws which frustrate home financing.