On Books and the Housing of Them

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• See a Problem?
• Introduction
• Why Affordable Housing Could Become Harder To Find
• Catalog Record: On books and the housing of them | Hathi Trust Digital Library
• Housing | BK BOOKS

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Better public housing management in Ghana: An approach to improve maintenance and housing quality. Cities for or against citizens? Socio-spatial restructuring of low-income neighbourhoods and the paradox of citizen participation. Diffusion and Risks of House Prices in the Netherlands. Research by design, engineering and prototyping.

Learning from co-housing initiatives: Between Passivhaus engineers and active inhabitants. Living with diversity in Jane-Fitch. Socio-spatial change in Lithuania: Depopulation and increasing spatial inequalities. Comparing spatial features of urban housing markets: Recent evidence of submarket formation in metropolitan Helsinki and Amsterdam.

Urban Housing Patterns in a tide of change: Spatial structure and residential property values in Budapest in a comparative perspective. Introduction to Sustainable Urban Renewal: Experience from the Netherlands. Towards a sustainable Northern European housing stock: Figures, facts and future. Comparing Risk Attitudes of Homeowners. The Meaning of Dwelling Features: Conceptual and Methodological Issues. Health performance of housing: Sociale implicaties van herstructurering en herhuisvesting.

Introduction

Cost Effectiveness of Sustainable Housing Investments. Sustainable Solutions for Dutch Housing: The Zambia National Housing Policy. Balanceren tussen uitvoering en bewuste afwijking van beleid. Measuring and Explaining House Price Developments.

Competition between social and private rental housing. Housing Wealth in Retirement Strategies: Towards Understanding and New Hypotheses. Ideas, Rise, Fall and Recovery: The Bijlmermeer and beyond. Divergence in European Welfare and Housing Systems. RIFAs prefer open and sun-exposed areas.

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Depending on her stamina and the weather, she may repeat this process many times without mating again. These two policies worked together to segregate metropolitan areas in ways that they otherwise would never have been segregated. The book gives so many different examples of how this played out, and one of the worst offenders is the FHA, the Federal Housing Administration. Explain why this one government agency has so much influence over where people live and what the FHA did to prevent black people from buying and owning homes.

Perhaps the best-known example is Levittown, just east of New York City, but there were subdivisions like this all over the country. What the federal government did in the s and '50s, it came to a developer like Levitt, the Levitt family that built Levittown. That family could never have assembled the capital necessary to build 17, homes on its own.

What the federal government did, the FHA, is guarantee bank loans for construction and development to Levittown on condition that no homes be sold to African-Americans and that every home have a clause in its deed prohibiting resale to African-Americans. The FHA policies here were not merely incentives or encouragements. You tell the story of progressive, idealistic developers who wanted to build integrated housing communities and were absolutely unable to do so.

And we're not just talking about in the Deep South here. We're not talking about the Deep South at all. We're talking of the North, the West, the Midwest. There was an enormous civilian housing shortage.

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He joined and helped to lead a co-operative of families who bought a large tract outside Stanford University where they wanted to build single-family homes. The FHA refused to insure those homes refused to provide the capital for construction because the member co-operative had three African-American members. The co-operative tried to resist the FHA's demand, promising the FHA that the number of African-Americans in the co-operative wouldn't exceed the percentage of African-Americans in California as a whole. The FHA refused that compromise. Finally, the co-operative had to disband because they couldn't go ahead with the project.

They sold the land to a private developer, who with FHA guarantees built single family homes with racially exclusive deeds. Your book also explains one way in which black neighborhoods became undesirable.

You described zoning laws in which black parts of town were officially zoned for industrial plants, waste disposal, other things that we would consider a blight. And meanwhile, those businesses were explicitly kept out of white neighborhoods in the same cities. Yes, there are examples in St. Louis and Los Angeles, neighborhoods that once they had African-American residents were rezoned to permit industrial and toxic uses. Those rezonings turned those neighborhoods into slums.

White families outside those neighborhoods looked upon the neighborhoods, saw slums and concluded that African-Americans were slum dwellers and that if they moved into their neighborhoods, into the white neighborhoods, they would bring those conditions with them.