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experience for you going in heavy coming back to the room. any never heavy but the whole thing is part of. a warship to me it means freedom struggle as a. moment that you eat this world i'm on while i understand that you don't hold anything. you are nothing you know some habits in this world catastrophic you've got to have a place that you can go to. and say this is my but i was going on i don't know this and it means so much to me that everything's i. know. 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 a kid at some apple juice is going out on the porch and small going to cigarettes.

you know was far no reason to snap out of it. so you can only dangerous so long. it's not fun you leave and go home and. in fact i wouldn't call the trenches. 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 do everything we can to spotlight the dream and make sure that dream shines in all neighborhoods. all

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 living. people need to. make. it. happen oh. 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 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 buyers for every house like none of that ever happened. 800 video. i documented 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 chula vista today that house sold for 1.6. 1 point. i'm just in the 0.

point 4. 5 if. i don't know what to say. but it's going to work. i don't know what the heck it is all else. pull in the front yard. slightly unfinished. firepit. why is stealing a trick to get me all the other clients is 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 so if you're sitting on a 1.2 or 1.4 loans and you see houses listed for. 5850 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 winding of 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. it's time for the next neighbor. i don't. you know thank you. many years ago. years ago.

i'm wondering. what the guard was born here many years ago and he used to be an hour from around here someplace you know where. i was converted. that used to be a tiny tiny. let me just check up a little bit. of the punch i'm on right now. 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 old his wife and. kids

came down to. the baths and gulch. steaks on the way to fight a bunch of black guys and they walked past us and my uncle frank said to my father get this kid get him out of this neighborhood and move. and it was not that long after that that we moved. off that. bridge. all the disciplines. so we would picket fence.

how much he wanted 38. 1000 in her knowledge here and a good deal. every town is not a rich neighborhood as you can see but what i love about this town is. it is what i consider to be the backbone of america. now go fight wars it's people like us who grow.

levittown was the 1st community. and then. 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. all new world. the idea that came to a man named bill levitt was this one off mass produced the elements that go to make up our own just as the auto industry does with the parts that go into the new cloth . 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. retraining triac you can house friends little as a $100.00 down and that $99.00

a month and that was partly because the federal government was insuring your market so. you had the g.i. bill in turns 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 never been able to afford to massive movements into the suburbs that we saw in the late 1940 s. 1950 s. and in the night you sixty's. i was a police officer in the national county and we were the swat team as well. if you are going to say you know destroy about sticking your tongue out of folks in the middle of the winter i did my duty. right on that where. i swear to god i did. if you couldn't afford to. put

a down payment beside that they would let you rent them. when the option to buy a view would shift to a. better government when you're ready for bed the progress of home building in the world. taken off a lot of doing we had a god. but absolutely 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 is a fundamental part of how our political leadership and our country at large understood the bargain you get a hope 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. and

states is lawful democracy is not a country that's founded only but i like jesus it's a country that is founded on slavery and you know ball and you know it's a country that's failing today to be paul's you know policies that he has created been founded on and produced over time both domestically and the world is what. no one has ever cruised around the globe in an inflatable catamaran before. you go up it. just gives it but. it's such a cruise you need a solid crew people you can share a foxhole with so to speak. you do hear this

news that he was such a creep. who was not the mother with these elements i'm also going to ask you that you just love them enough my 1st direct hit the floor with you're going to borrow something what do you need for us if that we've got the money for you don't you know he. will join you.

then he's going to report on one of the most unusual diplomatic events in recent history. that. said the kitchen maids are the most famous snowmass in the history of post white house here. as say sickly next and saying to chris shove that the strength of the american economy is the purpose for home and the ability of americans to purchase consumer durables to fill it so let's compete 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 the incredible. visions

of the future the house represented in those pages was something that you could aspire to and that was starting to become a reality. and to come it would be to our. entering. the house of 99 to. be virtually maintenance free. 3 life will be richer i'll face age dreams come true.

i'm. asking you these actually. i. like to try to. get my. m.p. . below. 45. i've got a boy. now i. get

only say. that levitt did that with. found out that. the only thing that never did that was robbie the 1st one to admit to us you. know by actual our. own blacks a lot. and that. is disgraceful. as i'm fighting alongside of black men who are willing to die for his country. and he can't buy a house next to me and never done. china to make an essentially. right now we're looking for a place to. live up to level like here we like the advantages of love accounting to offer a. lot or study. and we understood that it was going to be all right we are very

happy to buy a. new menu 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 however cockeyed sitting. in the. news.

it's just. i was struck by how familiar they felt it was a connection to have a town 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 hired by his design. and. i don't i'm not even going to open he was a socialist and i think a lot of the people in here well i'm going to get from this. my father is gregory a fairly well known california architect from the forty's and fifty's. so this is

less. 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 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 people. watching 12 percent of 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 tell and winds come flying out of.

my house. 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 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 now 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 protest that paid and what created american middle class has a lot to do with the problems we have now. could 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.

eat. eat. eat eat eat. eat being and. all. also noise in 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 a house for a week is my little city and i suppose i'm a complex. brilliant people a decent car was a lot of night it was fine when i got back to the city to be better because. my dad sent us somewhere for a week just to get a house together. and live in so many neighborhoods it doesn't allow you to gauge what is normal. his name was still pretty much the same. thousands of vacant we used to go all behind him and from. almost like it's rather hard to go on and fight every day before they got a big. you know a jam packed for an oval some like their. economy didn't show as empty as it

does now 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 vestments looking like a ghost town. or many ways is the ground 0 for racial apartheid in america. where racial zoning was. racially richard 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 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 f.h.a. in the v.a. 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 up to these areas but . what is probably a surprise a lot of people is that red lining is created by. the federal government. that's when the white bankers draw red lines around black areas and don't give up no green .

card if you will when you come from both of those with the chairs. ready to go the agency of a major overhaul. has to take a cue to interweave. which 93 years that i see no reason to go because a lot of my think if you get. to fish now go for the before bill and want to be sure that it is the. rest of us were simply she. would scold once this issue of. role for just really. is what the story could have to be if we did all of the much of which i mean yes the. dog mama does show it but they say you can be when you get out of the scott. peterson or she could just recently but it's also why should his mistress.

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