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you are not. you know some have is in this world catastrophic you got to have a place that you can go to. and say this is about what's going on. and it means so much to me is everything to me. from by myself i tend to savor it. so peaceful you know how to be walk around i'm on the way i'm going to further a kid that some apple juice is going out on the porch and smoke a cigarette. you know is 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 it trenches.
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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 are ready to start the 1st grade we want you to be able to come home. to be secure in their home and. people need to. make.
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a. lot more. just so. 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 . find a home 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
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right back at it frenzied up 51015 buyers for every house like none of that ever happened. to. the 800 video. document the real estate market on you tube i got almost 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 the dollhouse. pull in the front yard. slightly unfinished. firepit. why it's stealing the trick to get me all the other
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appliances all stolen. 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 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.
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. 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. many years ago. i did. one born here many years ago and they used to be an. issue around here someplace where you know when. i was converted.
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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. bad and. 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.
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bridge. 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
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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 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 $600.00 down and that $99.00 and i'm not as pretty as the federal government was ensuring your market. you had the g.i. bill intrudes 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
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never been able to afford to massive movement 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 your tongue out of folks 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 teacher. that they would let you lead them. what the option to abide . by the god i'm. proud to own the building in the world well all it's more like an awful lot of doing we had to start. with. everything i don't want if you go back to
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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 you have to 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. chose
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seemed wrong. just told. me you get to shape out just to become educated and engage with equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart. just to look for common ground. an entire village in alaska has had to move if another country trying to wipe out
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an american town. we do everything in our power to protect the. want of a escaping climate change poses the same threat right now alaska does seem some of the fastest coastal erosion in the world 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 big was 4 i think we're part of earth from. is your media a reflection of reality. in a world transformed. what will make you feel safe.
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isolation community. are you going the right way or are you being led. away. what is true what is faith. in a world corrupted you need to descend. to join us in the depths. or remain in the shallows.
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then who's going to report on one of the most unusual diplomatic events in recent history but that was that's said the kitchenette made certain i am less famous now mass in the history of post-war housing or. as say sickly next and same to christian of that the strength of the american economy is the post-war home and the ability of americans to purchase consumer durables to fell it oh let's compete not even a system that will give the 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 the incredible visions
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of the future that house represented in those pages was something that you could aspire to and that was starting to become a reality. wonder what it would be to move out by. the house of 99 to. be virtually made plans for 5. 3. life will be richer. as face age dreams come true.
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if people. feel the pressure. to. get my. feet. below. 45 minutes i bet you point. out that.
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if only we say. that levy did. that. the only thing that never did that would be the 1st one to admit to. no blacks allowed. and blacks allowed. and that. is just. some fighting alongside a black man willing to die for his country. if you can't buy a house next to me and live again. then i don't make any sense. now we were looking for a place. where we like. no
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other city. and we understood that it was going to be all right we're very happy to . move in you come to this neighborhood you know in me to do it's different. to nonchalant. there's no real census but it gives you a feeling of a park like setting.
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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 houses because they were so different the whole social partners 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. 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
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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 from the mid forty's to the mid fifty's. gregory believes that decent housing should be their right and everyone not just the privilege of 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 of.
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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. 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
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a lot to do with the problems we have now. would. be really interesting to dilute that and think about the longer deeper history housings men in the united states not just that question and the american dream but the bigger question of who the dream has been for.
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it's. being. 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
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in the. week. nice apartment complex a really. decent. night it was fun when i got back to the city. center somewhere for a week just to get a house together. so many neighborhoods. this neighborhood still pretty much the same. vacant we used to go. from. almost like a treasure hunt going to have fun every day. got a big. you know a jam packed. show as.
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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 best looking like a ghost town. anyways is 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 they were hoods are segregated this 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
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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 design you have the effigy 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 black people. what is probably a surprise 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 gray.
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skies or financial survival job about money laundering 1st visit this cash in the 3 different. oh good this is a good start well we have our 3 banks all set up for something in europe something in america something overseas in the cayman islands or do we do all these banks are complicit in the kleptocracy we just have to say ok i'm ready to do some serious money laundering ok let's see how we did well we've got a nice luxury watch for max and for stacy oh beautiful jewelry how about. a bill for max you know what money laundering is highly illegal here for a bunch of guys record. the world is driven by a dream shaped by one person that there is.
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no day or thinks. we dare to ask. this is not like football. it's not a money spinner but it is expensive. and it's dangerous . and this is. the breaks that's. the problem some people.
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choose a choice of december the headlines this lunchtime in new york threatens a 1000000 dollar fines for vaccine fraud after launching a criminal probe into a medical center thinks illegally obtained covert jobs. relatives of elderly people in the french care homes demond visiting rules be relaxed one of the restrictions or even more damaging to health than covert itself. it must nursing homes are only allowing visits and receiving rooms there like rooms for jail visits other residents in our nursing home are physically and mentally exhausting. leading up to rush to apologize for their own performances not being diverse enough critics question whether the whole woke movement's going to be too.

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