Oral history interview with Miles Lanier Colean, 1975
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- Name
- Colean, Miles Lanier, 1898-1980 (Interviewee)
- Bruns, Scott (Interviewer)
- Title
- Oral history interview with Miles Lanier Colean, 1975
- Other Titles
- Reminiscences of Miles Lanier Colean, 1975
- Abstract
- Education, University of Wisconsin and Columbia, 1916-24; Federal Housing Administration, Director, Technical and Rental Housing Divisions; 1940, housing research, 20th Century Fund; 1945- , consultant, Mortgage Bankers Association; organization and functions of Federal Housing Administration; lending reforms; multiplication of housing agencies; private market vs. social welfare orientation; housi ng and lending industries in the Depression, World War II, postwar, Eisenhower and Nixon administrations; inflation, corruption, government control, sources of funds, sociological factors; impressions of Stewart McDonald, Guy Hollyday, Leon Keyserling
- Collection Name
- Individual interviews oral history collection
- Subjects
- Economists; Government consultants--United States; Housing--Finance; Housing policy; Depressions--1929--United States; United States Economic conditions 1918-1945; United States Economic conditions 1945-; Colean, Miles Lanier, 1898-; Mortgage Bankers Association of America; United States. Federal Housing Administration
- Format
- oral histories; sound recordings
- Genre
- Interviews
- Date
- 1975
- Note (Biographical)
- Consulting economist
- Note
- Interviewed by Scott Bruns
- Language
- English
- Library Location
- Columbia Center for Oral History, Columbia University
- Catalog Record
- 10102535
- Persistent URL
- https://dx.doi.org/10.7916/f21b-dm26
- Related URLs
- Available digital content for this interview.