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it was a us it's not yet you nationally for side. knew all. the b.s. no regrets he creates that are. all extremists all of which i don't know much. of that if you should get to build i a will review. a pool b. of night. and let him know that you can be.
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screen cells of. the flipper. from upstairs to the right if. we get it right look at it then. we pull belongs there from here this is the work you do. from the south take. older and he's sexy business 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 just 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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stripped as a. mom while you wait is world more more honest than that 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 i'll know this 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 you can only dangerous so long. it's not fun and you leave and go home and. in fact i wouldn't call the 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 get home. to be secure
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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. americans. buying homes in southern california especially we dig real estate
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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 bias 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. 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 just in millions here. point 4. 585. i don't know what to say. but it's going to work.
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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 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 so if you're sitting on a 1.2 or 1.4 loans and you see houses listed for. 585 they're going to make you feel about. making that next payment. so what we saw in 2008 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. you know thank you. many years ago. 5. years ago. i did. one born here many years ago and they used to be an.
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issue around here someplace where you know when. i was converted. 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 one night my uncle frank was orders wife and. i came down to. the baths and. and they walked past us and my uncle frank said to my father get this kid get him
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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. to town. nation no but everybody thought it was going to fail because he built 10000 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. 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 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 $300.00 down and that $99.00 a month and that was partly because the federal government was ensuring your market . you had the g.i. bill encouraging 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 would 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 what a 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 lead them. when the option to buy the. item does and i'm. proud
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to own the building firm in the world but all it's more like 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 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
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me every thursday on the alex simon chill and i'll be speaking to guests of the world of politics small business i'm show business i'll see you then.
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then who's going to report on one of the most unusual diplomatic events in recent history was that's said the kitchenette bates' are less famous now mass and the history of post war has seen. 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 whole 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 come out by. turning off. the house of 9090. 5. life will be richer. as face age dreams come true.
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if people. actually feel the pressure. to. get my. feet. below. 45. i've got a point. if
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only restate. that levy did. that. the only thing that never did that would be the 1st one to admit to. no actual out . and that. is disgraceful. to 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 . 'd know when you come to this neighborhood you know in me too deep it's different. than entente. there's no real census but it gives you a feeling of a park like setting.
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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 part was his design. and. poor. i shouldn't even say it and so 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 a fairly well known california architect from the forty's and fifty's. so this is
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a 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 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 belive winds come flying out.
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termite you know it's. 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'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 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. possible is a beautiful little city with a lot of bad habits. the house is beautiful but. i don't really understand how segregated the city was because i never left. my days
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in the. week. it was fun. just to get a house together. so many neighborhoods. this neighborhood still pretty much the same. vacant we used to go. from up in i'm. going to have fun every day. you know a jam packed. show as. you
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say. 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 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
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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 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 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 dry. black areas and don't give up no grain.
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change your pick for the great reset. based something big what you mean is real liberalism research from believe it or truly believe people have any say in any. i'm going to. bring a review of longer. i mean you know starting point and then you can. be on not. i'm not.
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in the beginning but it might be us it's a must do nothing at all you naturally precised. through from boredom in the new all i still knew being a. blogger to 6 all extremists all of which i don't know much. new top of that if you should get a bill be you are you able review. in the store and. buying me a copy of night. if you want him let him know that you. join me every thursday on the alex salmond shill and i'll be speaking to us of the world of politics sport i'm sure. i'll see you.
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