ES 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Federal Housing Administration, Cow Palace, Housing Segregation In The United States
1 Apr 2016
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Role of myths in disguising racial myths. Housing, employment gentle apartheid , education, environmental racism, health care, incarceration. Realtors & developers as investors in whiteness. Want white tenants in our white community. Racially restrictive covenants: an investment in whiteness. Neighborhood organizing to defend restrictive covenants, la 1947. Urban renewal not rebuilding homes taken down (intended to better cities; only. Discriminatory loans: federal housing authority & veterans administration, which funded the majority of mortgages from 1946 1970, make loans almost exclusively to white suburban communities. 350,000 new homes n. ca (1946 - 1960) Federal highway construction displaces non-white residents in often vibrant communities focus on bringing people to business district. Actively organize to keep black, latino, & asian american residents from their communities. Moving from integrated to all white neighborhoods. 14th amendment = housing is a right; everyone should have equal housing only country that have race-based home laws. 14 = allowing people to be discriminate against.
