"A must-read for anyone seeking to understand the causes of the last financial crisis and why we may very well be heading towards another."
Former Special Inspector General for the Troubled Asset Relief Program and author of Bailout: An Inside Account of How Washington Abandoned Main Street While Rescuing Wall Street
"By unearthing the personal stories of homeowners, bankers, and regulators, Jennifer Taub shows that our recent financial crisis was no accident"
University of Connecticut School of Law, co-founder of the Baseline Scenario blog, and coauthor of 13 Bankers: The Wall Street Takeover and the Next Financial Meltdown and White House Burning: Our National Debt and Why it Matters to You.
"This is first-rate financial history."
CEO, FridsonVision LLC
"Taub exposes three decades of predatory lenders, greedy investors, and lax regulators, with a much-needed focus on the dire consequences of preventing bankruptcy judges from restructuring mortgage debt."
Dir. of Housing Policy, Center for American Progress
"A page-turner that reads like a Michael Lewis financial thriller, this bracing account of the roots of financial crises debunks stubborn myths with insight that would make Louis Brandeis proud."
George Washington University, editor of The Essays of Warren Buffett: Lessons for Corporate America
"Taub argues persuasively how the seeds for the 2008 financial crisis were sown back in the 1980s as deregulation paved the way for the S&L debacle. But that was only an appetiser for even greater calamity later."
The Guardian
"Meticulously argued and guaranteed to raise the blood pressure of the average American taxpayer."
"Over the years I’ve read a tall stack of books about the financial crisis. Other People’s Houses, by Vermont Law School professor Jennifer Taub, provides the clearest, beginning-to-end explanation I’ve seen of what went wrong."
Money Magazine
"Provides a concise, clear, and compelling account."
Huffington Post
"Taub's cogently written, accusatory work will interest a wide readership."
"Highly recommended. . .Taub does an excellent job retelling and reframing a reasonably well-known story to make it fresh and interesting, and makes a strong case tying the 2008 crisis to the 1980s deregulation."
Professor of Law, Georgetown University Law Center
"Brilliant account of the housing crisis and its lingering impact."
Professor of Law, University of Maryland, Francis King Carey School of Law
"A compelling narrative that keeps the reader's attention from cover to cover . . .It is a must read for anyone interested in understanding and reforming our broken financial system."
Professor of Law and Public Finance, Nova Southeastern University, Shepard Broad Law Center
