Changing Patterns XII: Mortgage Lending to Traditionally Underserved Borrowers and Neighborhoods in Greater Boston, 1990-2004

Authors

Jim CampenFollow

Document Type

Research Report

Publication Date

1-2006

Abstract

The present study is the latest in a series of annual updates of the original report, Changing Patterns: Mortgage Lending in Boston, 1990-1993. Beginning in 1998, the reports’ geographic scope was expanded to include an examination of mortgage lending patterns in 27 cities and towns surrounding the city of Boston. In 2003, the report’s geographic coverage was further expanded to include a total of 108 communities.

The text that follows this introduction highlights some of the most significant findings that emerge from the extensive set of tables and charts that constitute the bulk of the report. Part I, together with Tables 1–11 and their associated charts, provides an analysis of lending in the city of Boston from 1990 through 2004. This analysis is subdivided into three sections which focus, in turn, on total lending within the city, on lending by major types of lenders, and on lending under targeted mortgage programs.

Part II, together with Tables 12–20, examines detailed information on mortgage lending patterns in 108 individual communities – all 101 cities and towns in the Metropolitan Area Planning Commission (MAPC) Region plus the seven largest Massachusetts cities outside that region – as well as in four larger geographic areas: the MAPC Region as a whole, the Boston-Quincy Metropolitan Division (Boston MD), the Boston-Cambridge-Quincy Metropolitan Statistical Area (Boston MSA), and the entire state. Table 12 is preceded by a map showing the MAPC Region and the Boston MSA.

Comments

Prepared by the Gaston Institute at the University of Massachusetts Boston for the Massachusetts Community and Banking Council (MCBC).

Recommended Citation

Campen, Jim, "Changing Patterns XII: Mortgage Lending to Traditionally Underserved Borrowers and Neighborhoods in Greater Boston, 1990-2004" (2006). Gastón Institute Publications. 123.
https://scholarworks.umb.edu/gaston_pubs/123