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a gun in the open all the way to school or bring up a map for you here on the program so you can understand he he basically walked from his home approximately 10 minute journey from his home here to the school however questions remain as to why nobody called the police nobody alerted them perhaps nobody even saw the boy 19 years old walking down the street carrying a loaded pump action shotgun as one of a number of issues the incident has raised including what might have left the suspect to carry out such an attack and those who knew him said it went totally against his character. but it's a good we met this boy before he's our neighbor and i remember his face i notice that he had a very intelligent appearance he was a very tidy i've never seen him heading out with any dubious people he was a good boy and was always so quiet he also held me in the past with the tonsil language i don't know why he became like these i don't know what happens to him a very good and well mannered family i only had a good at being in of him well it's been
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screen sales of. the flipper. from upstairs. we're going to look at it an. equal billing system there from here this is the working tools. from this picture out. there and he's saying. this is a sexist me
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a woman. friend whatever you want to. look at. the finger. create is good read a bottle get it out of congress when you see just go down oh yes if you're asking me are for me just go through a screening and heavy coming back to the room. and he never heavy but my whole thing is puddle. all shipped to me i mean freedom strikes me as. more mob value which is world more moi understand that if 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.
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from about myself i tend to savor it. so peaceful you know how to be walk around i'm on the way i'm going to sort of further into it and some apple juice is going out on the porch and smoke a cigarette. you always find a reason to snap out of it. so you can only be aging so long. it's not fun and you leave and go home and. back to what you call the trenches. from the 30 is 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
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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 to 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 own your home. to be secure in their company. people need to. make. a. lot more.
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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. 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 right back at it frenzied up 51015 bias for every house like none of that ever happened. the 800 video. i documented the real estate market on you tube i got almost 1500 u
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t. and it gives people a really good sense of what's happening. i mean shool of this the today house sold for 1.6. 1 point and i'm talking millions here. point 4. 5 if. i don't know what to say. what'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 appliances. 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.
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i think it was. at least 8 of them headlong it's 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 payment. 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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still pretty much neighbors. i don't. you know thank you you could be old after many years ago. on notice richard. years ago. one of the. i'm wondering i did. write one born here many years ago and he used to be an. issue around here someplace where you know where. i was converted. or. that used to be a tiny tiny. let me just check up a little bit. my mother punched in my mind the phrase over there. when i was 6 months old.
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we moved from little italy in manhattan. to this area right here there was a housing project one night my uncle frank was old warders wife and. i came down this. path and belts. steaks. and they walked past us and my uncle frank said to my father get this kid get him out of this neighborhood. and it was not that long after that that we moved to levittown. county. that. bridge. to support the. least. that's.
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how much you want 30. 3000 in her. a deal. every town is not a rich neighborhood as you can see but what i love about this town is.
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what i consider to be the fact i want to. fight wars people like us who grow. levittown was the 1st community. nation no but everybody thought it was going to fail because he built 10000 how it is like that. coming out of the 2nd world war the idea of mass production became something that was truly a reality they. 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 a very particular moment and that was coming out of the post war trajectory and
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that created the need for that type of housing. to train to that you can house friends little as a $100.00 down and that $99.00 a month and that was probably because the federal government was constrained your market. may have the g.i. bill intrudes in construction of new home so the whole idea is your government wants you to have a home so this was an easy way to sort of jump start the housing industry and make homeownership possible without those subsidies lower middle class families we've never been able to afford to massive movements into the suburbs that we saw in the late ninety's for these 950 s. soon to be that you sixty's. i was a police officer here in the national county and we were the swat team as well. who
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are going to say you know to story about sticking your tongue on a flagpole in the middle of the winter i did i got it. right on that where. the shooter got i guess. if you couldn't afford to. put a down payment each. night they would let you rent them. what the options are by the view bush is still the. president on the. progress own building firm the world. economic a lot of what we had to start with. well absolutely not 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. this was a fundamental part of how our political leadership and our country at large understood
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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. the world is driven by shaped by the interests of those.
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who dares thinks. weak here into. ask. you then because you report on one of the most unusual diplomatic events in recent
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history. that's the kitchenette made certain i am less famous now mass in the history of post-war housing. as say sickly nixon saying to chris shove that the strength of the american economy is the post-war home and the ability of americans to purchase consumer durables to fellow colette's compete i know that the system that will give the people or 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 of the future the house of representatives in those pages was something that you
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could aspire to and that was starting to become a reality. no matter how wonderful it would be to go out by. our. house of 1900. only 9 times free. 3 life will be richer easier. as face age dreams come true.
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let's leave actually. looked like. it might. end up. hello. 45. i bet you going. to get only say. that levy did. validate
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that. the only thing that mattered did that was trying to be the 1st one to admit to. no blacks allowed. and blacks allowed. and that. is disgraceful. as i'm fighting alongside a black man willing to die for his country. and he can't buy a house next to me and i began. trying and i don't make any sense. right. now we're looking for a place. like here we like the advantages of. no other city. and 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. to nonchalant. there's no real fences it gives you a feeling how 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 i his design. and. i shouldn't even say that and so don't i'm not even going to open oh he was a socialist and i think a lot of the people the mood in here. i'm going to get from this. my father is gregory fairly well known 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 yaf are white and have to tell of johnson's jewel in 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 him and 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 privilege of very wealthy pay from. watching 12 percent of the population is why 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 know winds come flying out of.
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my house. 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. 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's made the biggest difference african-americans were left out of that. and that inability to protest have paid and what created american middle class has a lock to do with the problems we have now.
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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 the bigger question of who the dream is for. so.
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it's easy to. see me. being. all. possible is a beautiful little city with a lot of it had its. houses here beautiful but. i don't really understand how segregated city was because i never left my areas. my days in the house for a week. and i suppose i'm
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a complex. really. decent call it wasn't loud at night it was fine when i got back to the city. center somewhere for a week just to get a house together. and live in so many neighborhoods it doesn't allow you to gauge. his name was still pretty much the same. vacant we used to go all behind him and found. a phantom almost like a treasure hunt to go on and fight every day many people are left before they got a big. you know a jam packed by some foreign oval some like their. community didn't feel as empty as it does now you say only because.
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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 is the ground 0 for racial apartheid in america. where racial zoli was. racially referred to cover this we're 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 v.a. the federal housing administration a veteran's administration they subsidize home building in suburbs and then they say is racially exclusive in means white people can move out to these areas but black people. what is probably 'd a surprise a lot of people is that red lining is created by. that's when the white bank is red lines around black areas that don't give a. gaza
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