show bio Greg Squires

Gregory D. Squires is a Professor of Sociology and Public Policy and Public Administration at George Washington University. Currently, he is a member of the Board of Directors of the Woodstock Institute, the Advisory Board of the John Marshall Law School Fair Housing Legal Support Center in Chicago, and the Social Science Advisory Board of the Poverty & Race Research Action Council in Washington, DC. He has served as a consultant and expert witness for fair housing groups and civil rights organizations around the country including HUD, the National Fair Housing Alliance, the National Community Reinvestment Coalition, and many others. He also served a three-year term as a member of the Consumer Advisory Council of the Federal Reserve Board.

He has written for several academic journals and general interest publications including "Social Problems," "Social Science Quarterly," "Urban Affairs Review," "Journal of Urban Affairs," "The Nation," "The American Prospect," "New York Times," and "Washington Post." Prior to joining the faculty at George Washington, he taught at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and served as a research analyst for the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights.

Too Big to Bail and Too Big to Jail
Date: 4/22/2010

A professor of sociology, public policy and public administration at George Washington University, Greg Squires gives a Clinton School lecture titled, "Too Big to Bail and Too Big to Jail: Predatory Lending from the Bible to the Bible Belt and Beyond," about predatory lending and its role in the subprime mortgage crisis. The author of several books and articles about the effects of housing policy on race and class in America, Squires has studied and written about the racial implications of metropolitan development and the role of financial services in producing uneven development of metropolitan areas.