PP&D 4 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Redlining, Federal Housing Administration

• School: UC-Irvine
• Department: Planning, Policy, and Design
• Course: PP&D 4
• Professor: Walter Nicholls

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Lecture 9 racist city: the southern system (jim crow) a. i. Interactions that occurred were regulated in the institutions that were normally congregated at: the northern system b. i. Migrations and white belief in racial segregation b. ii. The role of realtors: the birth of covenants b. ii. 1. a. Legal agreements not to sell or to rent property to minorities who would cause the drop in value in certain neighborhoods b. ii. 1. b. These covenants were legally binding, violators could be sued in state court to force the removal of black tenants or buyers and to demand reparations from sellers or renters or allowed colored people into their neighborhood. If a neighborhood is to retain stability, properties shall continue to be occupied by the same social and racial classes b. ii. 2. a. ii. Introduced to provide educational support and loans to men who had served in the military b. ii. 3. b. 80% of men born in the 1920 and 1930s were available for gi loans.