Real Estate Appraisers

Home Owners' Loan Corporation Created, Establishes Racial Appraisal Framework

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President Roosevelt signs the Home Owners’ Loan Act, creating the Home Owners’ Loan Corporation (HOLC) as an emergency response to the mortgage crisis of the Great Depression. Between 1933 and 1936, HOLC refinances approximately one million mortgages (one-tenth of all urban homes with …

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