Robert Henderson

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Mentor: Matthew Lassiter, Associate Professor of History and Urban and Regional Planning at the University of Michigan
Robert Henderson’s dissertation sheds light on the historical roots of a most vexing current political and economic dilemma – the deregulation of America’s housing markets. While many scholars have explored the political ideology of suburbanization, Henderson pushes the field in new directions by investigating the financial and regulatory mechanisms underpinning the markets themselves. His dissertation is titled “Dream Deregulated: The Transformation of Housing Finance, 1968-1985.”