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14 J. Bus. Entrepreneurship & L. 1 (2021)

handle is hein.journals/jbelw14 and id is 1 raw text is: HOW THE SUBPRINE MORTGAGE CRISIS
SPARKED NEW LEGISLATION AND CHANGED
THE WAY MILLENNIALS PURCHASE REAL
ESTATE
Troy T. Kramer
INTRODUCTION .................................................................................1
I. THE NEW KIDS ON THE BLOCK..................................................3
A.     Demographics of the Millennial Generation..... 3
B.     The Technological Revolution of the Real Estate
M arket................................................................ . .  6
C.     Why Millennials are Moving Out of Cities .......... 8
II. THE IMPACT OF THE SUBPRIME MORTGAGE CRISIS...................9
A.     Enemy Number One: Mortgage-Backed Securities
and Financial Derivative Products................... 10
B.     Legislation in Response to the Subprime Mortgage
C risis ................................................................ . .  12
C.     The Legal Fallout of the Subprime Mortgage Crisis
......................................................................... . .   1 9
III. BIG BANKS OR BIG GOVERNMENT. WHO WAS REALLY
RESPONSIBLE FOR THE CRISIS? ................................................23
IV. WHAT MILLENNIALS SHOULD LEARN FROM THE SUBPRIME
MORTGAGE CRISIS BEFORE ENTERING THE MARKET ..............27
V. CONCLUSION ...........................................................................31
INTRODUCTION
The real estate market is experiencing a cultural change in the way
that buyers purchase homes as Millennials begin to enter the market after
the devastation of the Subprime Mortgage Crisis of 2008. Millennials are
members of Generation Y and were born between 1981 and 1996.1 Elder
Millennials are individuals in their early forties and young Millennials are
1 Michael Dimock, Defining Generations: Where Millennials End and
Generation  Z   Begins,  PEW   RSCH.   CTR.   (Jan.  17,  2019),
https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2019/01/17/where-millennials-end-and-
generation-z-begins/.

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