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an entire village in alaska has had to move if another country trying to wipe out an american town. we do everything in our power to protect the. water then escaping climate change poses the same threat right now alaska does seem some of the fastest coastal erosion in the world we lost about 35 feet. 35 feet of ground in just about 3 months while we were measuring. is fast and that means the river is 35 closer than how many was a year or i don't think we're part of america or earth from.
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screen spots of. the flipper. from upstairs to the right if. we get it right or let it. be pulled it runs back from here this is the work you do. from check this out. and he's taking business sections tell me a woman. friend whatever you would see. if. the finger. this would create this new breed of bottle in the middle of congress when you see just float i don't know if you're asking me are just fulfilling screaming and heavy coming back to the room. any never heavy but my
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whole thing is puddle. all shit to me it means freedom stripped as a. small mob valuate this world i'm alone while i understand that but you don't call it anything. you are nothing you know some have is in this world catastrophic you got to have a place that you can go to. and say this is my about i was going on i'll do this and it means so much to me is everything to me. from by myself i tend to savor it. so peaceful to not to be walking around i'm on the way i'm going to further a kid at some apple juice is going out on the porch and smoking a cigarette. you know is fine a reason to snap out of it. so he would only be aging so long. it's not fun
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and you leave and go home and. in fact i wouldn't call it trenches. from the thirty's onward every single president has spoken of homeownership almost as the basis of citizenship your ability to own a home kind of makes us citizen the most tangible cornerstone that lies at the heart of the american dream and that's the chance to own your own home those of us who've been given positions of responsibility must do everything we can to spotlight the dream and make sure that dream shines in all neighborhoods. across the country i say to millions of young working couples by the time your children
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are ready to start the 1st grade we want you to be able to get home. to be secure in their home and. people need to. make. a. lot more. i'm jim the realtor here's some tips for home buyers number one work with a great realtor a good realtor sells a least one house a month check their sales history on selo.
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americans. buying homes in southern california especially we dig real estate and we forgot about the boat and all the other trouble the financing and everything else. and here we are right back at it frenzied up 51015 buyers for every house like none of that ever happened. to. the 800 video. i documented the real estate market on you tube i got almost 1500 u t was. to give people really good sense of what's happening. i mean chula vista today that house sold for 1.6. 1 point one i'm just indians here. point 4. 585.
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i don't know what to say. but it's going to work. i don't know what the heck it is the dollhouse. pull in the front yard. slightly unfinished. firepit. why is stealing a trick to get me all the other appliances all still want. what could have been so nice about those pillars that they had to steal this and i'm not sure. there's. 15 houses on this street. i think it was. at least 8 of them had loans way over a 1000000 but if you're sitting on a 1.2 or 1.4 loans and you see houses listed for. 585 they can make you feel about. making that next payment.
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so what we saw in 2008 was the unwinding of the housing finance system what most people understand as a financial crisis or a problem of our housing stock actually is on wanted to get a social contract that was built in the 1940 s. . and so understanding that and how the american home was the basis of how we organize the economy and how we organize social stability is an important part of understanding why we are where we are now. i don't. you know thank you you could be. many years ago.
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years ago. i. was. born here many years ago and he used to be an. issue around here someplace where you know. that used to be a tiny tiny. let me just check up a little bit. of the punch. when i was 6 months old we moved from little italy in manhattan. there was a housing project in one night my uncle frank was white and. came down. and gulch.
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and they walked past us and my uncle frank said to my father get this kid this neighborhood. and it was not that long after that that we. bridge.
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how much you want 38. 1000. here. but what i love about this town is. what i consider to be. people like us who go. over town. nation no but everybody
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thought it was going to fail because he built 10000 and it is like that. coming out of the 2nd world war the idea of mass production became something that was truly a reality a. look. all new world. the idea that came to a man named bill levitt was this wind up mass produced the elements that go to make up all the auto industry does with the parts that go into the new law. when i was living there it was at a very particular moment and that was coming out of post-war trajectory and that created the need for that type of housing. retraining too that you came on house for as little as a $100.00 down and that $99.00 and i'm not as pretty as the federal government was insuring your market. you had the g.i.
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bill in turns in construction of new homes so the whole idea is your government wants you to have a home so this was an easy way to sort of jumpstart the housing industry and make homeownership possible without those subsidies lower middle class families would never been able to afford to massive movement into the suburbs that we saw in the late 1940 s. 1950 s. and it isn't you sixty's. i was a police officer in the national county and we were the swat team as well. who i'm going to say you know to story about sticking your tongue out of place. in the middle of winter i did i did it. right on that where. i swear to god i did. if you couldn't afford to. put a down payment teacher. that they would let you read them. what the future binding
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of you would shift to. but isn't done on. the prognosis of home building firm in the world well all it might take an awful lot of doing we had to start from scratch with absolutely no everything out to be don't want if you go back to william levitt he said no man who owns his own home and lot can be a communist. because he has too much to do. this was a fundamental part of how our political leadership and our country at large understood the bargain get a right i mean after work there are 30 or jobs that go along with it that match the 30 year mortgage and then you know rebel right as the things you don't revolt if you have a stake in the system. secret
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prisons are not usually what comes to mind when thinking about europe he even the most prosperous can be deceived within the 0 zone there were too few houses were. preserved was located only cia people had access to the story investigators held zillion covered the darkest dealings of the secret services but i mean. you graded nor in. d.c. may be a sword for. justice. then
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to report on one of the most unusual diplomatic events in recent history but let that said the kitchen maid. there are less famous moments in the history of post where i had a singer. say sickly next and saying to christian of that the strength of the american economy is the promise to our home and the ability of americans to purchase consumer durables to fill it so let's go to pete i know that the system that will give the people or good will be the better system in this one particular moment nixon was right. this was the strength and the american economy. i can remember even as
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a kid looking at house magazines and seeing these incredible visions of the future that house represented in those pages was something that you could aspire to and that was starting to become a reality. now wonder what it would be to an alibi. entering compromise on the future of the house of 1900 will be virtually maintenance free. 3 3 life will be richer. as they say dreams come true. i.
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think i'm. going to ask you do you actually. feel. like you can. hey buddy give me 45 minutes i've got a point. ok. only
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say. that levy did. the only thing that never did that was. to admit to. no blacks allowed. on blacks so much. and that. is disgraceful. to some fighting alongside a black man willing to die for his country. and he can't buy a house next to me and live again. for a place. where we like. it
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was going to be all white we're very happy to. you know when you come to this neighborhood you know immediately it's different. the nonchalant. as it gives you a feeling of a park like setting.
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i was struck by how familiar it felt it was a connection to levittown that they both developed as post-war suburbs. i believe going in he built these houses he really built these houses for the veterans coming home from the war it was hard for him to get financing for these houses because they were so different the whole social part was his design. and. i shouldn't even say don't i'm not even going to open oh he was a socialist and i think a lot of the people that moved in here well i'm going to get into this. my father is gregory fairly well known in california architect from the forty's and
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fifty's. so this is letters. to say i just came into my hotel room from an interesting and unexpected visit to the basement drafting rooms that yeah why didn't have to tell of johnson's jewel that new canaan he is a real fascist intellectual. i started running through some old papers and then i came across this here 200 page 10200 page file that the f.b.i. kept on and then they were watching everything he did in the mid forty's to the mid fifty's. gregory believes that decent housing should be their right and everyone not just the privileged very wealthy people. watching 12 percent of the population is black there should be a lot of black families living out here yeah this is only a beginning but i think it's wonderful well let's see how wonderful it is what i
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want to belive winds come flying out. there my olds. the neighborhood was supposed to be twice as large the plants was $400.00 homes and only $52.00 were built the f.h.a. at that time didn't think that enter graded neighborhoods would be as. tracked it to the general public and they're providing mortgage insurance and in their minds for that would bring down the value of the homes. you know most people in america the value of those homes and parents passing that on to their children that made the biggest difference african-americans were left out and that. that
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inability to protests have paid and what created american middle class has a lot to do with the problems we have now. would. be really interesting to dial back and think about the longer deeper history housings man in the united states not just that question of the american dream but the bigger question of who the dream has been for.
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it's. me. being. all. possible is a beautiful little city with a lot of bad habits. the house is a beautiful. house. i
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don't really understand how segregated the city was because i never left. my days in the house for a week. and nice apartment complex. really. decent. night it was fine when i got back to the city. center somewhere for a week just to get the house together. so many neighborhoods it doesn't allow you to gauge what is normal. this neighborhood still pretty much but the same. vacant we used to go. from. it's rather hard to go on and fight every day before they got a big. you know
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a jam packed. show as. you say. baltimore is a microcosm of many urban areas in america and it is like dickens would say the tale of 2 cities. you have great investments in certain parts of town and other and looking like a ghost town. anyways the ground 0 for racial apartheid in america. where racial zoning was. racially referred to governance were also created here. we have a myth in this country that the reason they were hoods are segregated is because people like to live with one another who are of the same race or because
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african-americans have too little income to move into white neighborhoods or because this private prejudice that prevents african-americans from buying homes in white neighborhoods and that's all true but it's a tiny tiny part of the truth. there's intentionality with the capital decisions that were made around housing in the forty's and in the fifty's and i think people are a lot to sleep thinking that certain things happen by default rather than by design you have the if it's in the federal housing administration a veteran's administration they subsidize home building in the suburbs and then they say is racially exclusive. white people can move out to these areas but black people. what is probably a surprise for a lot of people is that red lining is created by. federal government. that's when the white bank is drawing red lines around black areas and don't give up no green.
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congo. the maternity town the slums go in and you may never get out some sort of the most of. my teenage gang rules here. no one i. don't know let's remind. our viewers. but. maybe it will be very. nice seeing her. but now it's looking for the yeah. and melanie like.
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