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it means so much to me is everything to me. from by myself i tend to savor it. so peaceful good not to be walking around i'm on the way i'm going to defer to read it as some apple juice is going out on the porch and smoke a cigarette. you always find a reason to snap out of it. so he would only be aging so long. it's not fun when you leave and go home and. in fact i wouldn't call the trenches. from the thirty's onward every single president has spoken of homeownership almost as the basis of citizenship your ability to own
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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 almost 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 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. problem.
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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. americans. buying homes in southern california especially we dig real estate and we forgot about the bubble 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 document the real estate market on you tube i got almost
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1500 you tube. and it gives people really good sense of what's happening. i mean sure of this that today that house sold for 1.6. 1 point one i'm talking millions here. point 4. 585. i don't know what to say. but it's going to work. i don't know what the heck it is dollhouse. pull in the front yard. slightly unfinished. firepit. why it's stealing the 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
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this street. i think it was. at least 8 of them had loans way over a 1000000 so 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 name and. 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.
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i don't. you know thank you. for many years ago. i did. one 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
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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. and. came down to. the baths and belts. 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 moved. that. bridge.
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how much you want 38. 1000. here.
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but what i love about this town is. what i consider to be. people like us who go. down. nation no but everybody 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 what this wind up mass produced the elements that go to make up all the auto industry does with the parts that go into a new law. when i was living there it was at
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a very particular moment and that was coming out of post-war trajectory and that created the need for that type of housing. retraining to that you can house for as little as $600.00 down and that $99.00 a month and that is primarily because the federal government was insuring your market. you had the g.i. bill intruding 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 in the night you sixty's.
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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 destroyed that sticking it. in the middle of the windows i did right there. right on that where. the shooter got i guess. if you couldn't afford to. put a down payment piece. that they would let you let them. what the option to buy. but if the government wanted more of it open the fraud to own building from the world but all it might take an awful lot of doing we had to start from scratch with absolutely no everything had 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.
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this was a fundamental part of how our political leadership and our country at large understood the bargain you get a home 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. join me every thursday on the elec simon chill and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you. is your media a reflection of reality. in a world transformed. what will make you feel safe from.
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a. trip the cut some beautiful. then the report on one of the most unusual diplomatic events in recent history. was thought i'd
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said the kitchener bates' are less famous now mass in the history of post-war housing. as say sickly nixon st a christian of that the strength of the american economy is the post-war 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 more good will be a better system and this one particular moment nixon was right. this was the strength and the american economy. i can remember even as 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 be out by.
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the house of 99 to. be virtually maintenance free. 3 3 life will be richer. as they say green has come true. thank you. thank. you. joins us to feel the pressure.
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hello. everybody give me 45 minutes i bet you going. to get only say. that levy did. that. the only thing that never did that would be to force one to admit to. no blacks allowed. and blacks
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allowed. 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 in love again. we understood that it was going to be all right we're very happy to.
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know when you come to this neighborhood you know immediately it's different. than nonchalant. there's no real sense as it gives you a feeling of a park like setting. 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 and he built these houses he really built these houses for the
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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. even state and so don't i'm not even going to open oh if he was a socialist and i think a lot of the people who moved in here were i'm going to get into opera from the us . my father is gregory a fairly well known. and california architect from the forty's and fifty's. so this is the 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 rummaging through some old
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papers and then i came across this here 200 page 10200 page file that the f.b.i. kept on him and they were watching everything he did from the mid forty's to the mid fifty's. gregory believes that decent housing should be the right of 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 want to bellow winds come flying out.
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there my olds. the neighborhood was supposed to be twice as large the playoffs was $400.00 homes and only $52.00 were built the f.h.a. at the time didn't think that enter graded neighborhoods would be attractive to the general public and they were providing mortgage insurance and in their minds 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 of that. that. inability to protest a paid in what created american middle class has a lot to do with the problems we have now. the really interesting that and think about the longer deeper history housings
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men in the united states not just that question the american dream but the bigger question of who the dream has been for. oh. it's. the.
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being. all. possible is a beautiful little city with a lot of bad habits. the house is a beautiful. house. i 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 a really. decent. night it was fun when i got back
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to the city. center somewhere for a week just to get the house together. many times to count. so many neighborhoods it doesn't allow you to gauge what is normal in. this neighborhood still pretty much but the same. vacant we used to go all behind him and found. it's rather hard to go on and fight every day before they got a big. you know 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
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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 zoli was. racially richard 2 governments 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 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
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are logged to sleep thinking that certain things happen by default rather than by design you have 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 black people. what is probably a surprise to 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 great.
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lead. the world is driven by dreamers shaped by phone person with those words. the dares thinks. we dare to ask.
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when i was told small seemed wrong all right old quotes just don't call. me the world is yet to shape out this day and you can't get out of jail and in again trade equals betrayal all the once and many find themselves worlds apart when you choose to look for common ground. max kaiser this is the kaiser report with stacy herbert an special year end guest misfires died the man who i must say how does the kind of sensitivity to world events and markets we're really seeing anywhere except here on tires or for mitt welcome back.
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an entire village in alaska. if another country run the white vote in america. we do everything in our power to protect. wanted me to skipping climate change poses the same threat right now alaska seems some of the fastest coastal erosion in the world we lost about 30 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 the woman was or i don't think we were part of the 1st from.
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headlining this monday lunchtime full intensive care units force california clinics to set up a makeshift ward. tells us just how bad the situation is getting. we're stuck now we were running low on oxygen on supplies he have patients in overflow overflow overflow areas. here in russia vaccination with. job starts for people over 60 years of age today the group most affected by the virus the health ministry approved the jobs safety and efficacy. nation rolls out across europe too but citizens no less hugely divided on whether or not to get it.

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