Predatory Lending and the Destruction of the African-American Dream

Janis Sarra is Professor of Law at the University of British Columbia, Peter A. Allard School of Law, and was the founding Director of the National Centre for Business Law. Over 100 superior and appellate court judgments have cited her books and publications in corporate, finance, securities and insolvency law. Dr Sarra is a member of the Canadian delegation to United Nations Commission on International Trade Law WG V. Cheryl Wade is the Dean Harold F. McNiece Professor of Law at St. John's University School of Law, New York. A member of the American Law Institute, Professor Wade has written over twenty-five book chapters and law review articles exploring the intersection of race, law and business.

• 1. Introduction; 2. Foreclosure: at what cost and to whom?; 3. Predatory lending practices prior to the global financial crisis; 4. Predatory lending targeted African Americans; 5. The implications of the collapse of the mortgage-backed securities market for consumer borrowers; 6. A missed opportunity; 7. Financial crisis reforms woefully inadequate; 8. Incomplete justice: legal actions against predatory lenders; 9. A subprime loan by any other name is just as predatory; 10. 'Foregiveness', rather than forebearance or foreclosure; Appendix I.

'Devastating! Shows how unscrupulous lenders and lax government agencies sold African Americans on dangerous, subprime loans.' Richard Delgado, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa