HIST 128 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Federal Housing Administration, Betty Friedan
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Race and female gender in the postwar era. Suburban growth sharpened the divide between races (black or white) Communities were enclaves reserved for white families: restrictive housing policies. Forbid leasing/renting/ownership from certain races (both aa and asian: discriminatory lending policies. Federal housing administration (created in the 30s) put in place lending policies. Fha standardized how banks determine property value. Appraisal system put more emphasis on race than on property values. Thought the mixing of races would decrease property values. Blacks excluded from low interest long-term loans properties seen as risky". Increasing numbers of whites occupy the suburbs while blacks, asians, native americans (people of color) reside in the cities. Suburban growth flourished bc developers and homeowners invested in growing communities as encouraged by the federal government. In the new racial climate, what it meant to be white changed. Post war suburbs included a rich ethnic diversities of whites.
