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screen cells 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 take this out. and he's taking this in the sex and tell me a woman. friend whatever you would see. if. the finger. create is good read a bottle in the middle to congress when you see this flow i don't know if you're asking me or for my just pull through a screen and heavy coming back to the room. any never heavy but the whole thing is puddle. all shit to me it means freedom
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stripping is a small mob valuate is world more moi understand it but you don't call it anything . you are nothing you know some have is in this world catastrophic you gotta have a place that you can go to. and say this is my about i was going on islands and it means so much to me is everything to me. from by myself i tend to savor it. so peaceful can i do to be walk around i'm on the way i'm going to sort of for a very good then some apple juice is going out on the porch and smoke a cigarette. you know is fine a reason to snap out of it so i think you can only begun so long. it's not fun when you leave and go home and. in fact i wouldn't call it trenches.
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from the thirty's on word 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 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.
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a. bomb or. just say. 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
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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 1500 you tube was. going to give 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 court. i don't know what the heck it is the dollhouse. pool in the front yard. slightly
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unfinished. firepit. why is stealing a trick to get me all the other planets is all stolen. 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 sit non-o. 1.2 or 1.4 loans and you see houses listed for. 585 they can make you feel about. making that next payment. so what we saw in 2000. it was the unwinding of the housing finance system what most people understand as a financial crisis or
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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. know thank you used to be. many years ago. years ago. i did. one born here many years ago and they used to be an. issue around here someplace
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where you know we. might have been. converted. or. 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 already as white and. came down as. bats and steaks on the way to fight a point you. and they walked past us and my uncle frank said to my father get this
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kid get him out of 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. down. in the nation now but everybody thought it was going to fail. because he built $10000.00 and it is like that. coming out of
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the 2nd world war the idea of mass production became something that was truly a reality a. look. the idea that came to a man named bill levitt was the wind up mass produced the elements that go to make up all the auto industry does what the parts that go into a new car. 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. returning to that you can house for as little as $500.00 down and that $99.00 a night and that was partly because the federal government was ensuring your market . you had the g.i. bill in thirds in construction of new homes so the whole idea is your government wants you to have
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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 could never been able to afford to massive movements into the suburbs that we saw in the late 1940 s. 950 s. soon to be 966. 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 it. in the middle of the windows i did i did it. right on that where. i swear to god i guess. if you couldn't afford to. put a down payment teacher. that they would let you read them what the option to buy just a. but if you go from i'm. proud to own
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building in the world but all of the awful lot of doing we had to. do everything got 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 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. americans love.
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this was a fundamental part of how our political leadership and our country a large understood the bargain you get a hope and then you know rebel right as the things you don't revolt if you have a stake in the system. be really interesting to dial it back and think about the longer deeper history housings men in the united states not just that question of the american dream but the bigger question of who the dream is and for . max kaiser this is the kaiser report with stacy herbert an special year end guest misfires by 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 time for 4 minutes welcome back.
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an entire village in alaska knows how to move if another country to 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 has seen some of the fuss just 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 the woman was or i don't think we're part of the earth for.
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you would then because you report on one of the most unusual diplomatic events in recent history was that's said the kitchenette mates are less famous now mass in the history of post-war housing or. as say sickly next and same to christian of that the strength
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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 not just in there we'll give you people more good will be the 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 come out by.
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the house of 99 to. be virtually. 3. life will be richer. as face age dreams come true. if people. feel the pressure. to. get my.
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feet. below. 45. i've got a point. if only restate. that levy did. that. the only thing that never did that would be the 1st one to admit. no blacks allowed . on blacks allowed. and that. is just. some
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fighting alongside a black man willing to die for his country. and he can buy a house next to me and live again. and then i don't make any sense. now we were looking for a place. where we like. no other city. and we understood that it was going to be all right we're very happy to .
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move in you come to this neighborhood you know in me to do it's different. than on one together. there's no real census but it gives you a feeling of a park like setting. just because 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
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houses because they were so different the whole social part was his design. and. i shouldn't even 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 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 100 he had 200 page file that the
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f.b.i. kept on and then they were watching everything he did from 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 want to belle and winds come flying out of. termite you know it's. 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.
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at that time didn't think that enter graded neighborhoods would be. 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 inability to protests have paid and what created american middle class has a lot to do with the problems we have now. and be really interesting to dial back and think about the longer deeper history housings men in the united states not just that question of the american dream but
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the bigger question of who the dream has been for. it's. being.
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all. possible is a beautiful little city with a lot of bad habits. the house is a beautiful place. i don't really understand how segregated the city was because i never left. my days in the. week. nice apartment complex. decent. night it was fun when i got back to the city. center somewhere for a week just to get a house together. many times to count.
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so many neighborhoods. this neighborhood still pretty much the same. vacant we used to go. it's rather hard to go on and on 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 tale of 2 cities. you have great investments in certain parts of town and other and
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looking like a ghost town. anyways the ground 0 for racial apartheid in america. where racial zoning was. racially richard 2 covenants were also created here. we have a myth in this country that the reason neighborhoods 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 are logged to sleep thinking that certain things happen by default rather than by
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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 it means white people can move out to these areas but black people. what is probably a surprise to a lot of people is that red lining is created by. the federal government. that's when the white bank is drawing red lines around black areas and don't give up no green. join me every thursday on the alex i'm unsure when i'll be speaking to get us to the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you than. anyone else chose seemed wrong all right old quotes just don't call. me
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lol just to shape our disdain becomes to add to it and in again from an equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. this is nothing like football. it's not a money spinner but it is expensive. and it's dangerous . this is speed. and they have no brakes to. stop the cut off from.
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