lose the mandate that the government is given to not to prevent discrimination, but actually affirmatively go out and say, how do we desegregate america? the government betrays that policy. ah, i mind as i travel across the country that whether we're talking about the white americans or people who may be robot and other minority groups like the mexican americans, the rest just like the back americans. what everybody wants as an equal chance to have a piece of the action that the federal government has never enforced the fair housing act. and that state and local governments do not enforce to turn around. and again, you can have federal policy. but if the local administration of these policies that often miss the black people received discriminatory treatment. hello, my name is tyrone washington. i'm calling about the apartment on park street

available. yes. hello, my name is graham wellington, i'm calling about the apartment for rent on park street. is that still available? yes, it is. what is really, what does this mean? it means that the places that were segregated in the thirty's for the fifty's, they're still racially segregated today because we haven't done anything to undo. the racial segregation, live in town today is over 95 percent white, very few minority families living there. they fix the damage that was done. we just allowed those inequalities to continue, but said from this day forward, we can't discriminate. so it didn't fix it. all of these policies and practices, the systems that the federal government, state government and local government pass and, and they converge to sort of create, concentrated poverty by the time we reached the so that creates

a situation where many urban areas you have like what george clinton will call you know, chocolate cities in the vanilla suburb what they call it, the white house. that's a temperamental condition. there's a lot of talk to the cities around. we've got new. we've got gary, some tell me we got to work another. let me get out 40 acres in you, but we did give me the time to tell you now there is no program or promise that a president can bake saying that the federal government going to come in and do their the condition of black veterans and

white veterans diverse even though when they return from the war they were economically similar families. public housing then became a black phenomena. the people who fall into this category, they have to live where society is not anytime nature down and people constantly, human cities isn't adequate. these service neighborhoods that were heavily concentrated with african americans, garbage collection, wasn't picked up as frequently. streets weren't repaired as well. conditions deteriorated, the urban areas became squanders. ah, i would like to rather america knows in this and say, take a look at it. you want to reject it, go ahead. well, i certainly would, wouldn't hate to think,

but anybody is what i said they were given up. hope. what i'm saying is that society has failed. the hope of the people who live and struggle here. that's what i'm really saying. they're going to go on struggling anyway. whether we fail or succeed at the same time you have concentration. you also have clearance. you have highway construction, which is destroying black community. we oftentimes urban areas are built dead in the middle of black community. so there's a sort of rising anger or frustration that takes place. ah, well, once that became slums authorities looked at them and said, well we need to do some, some clearance i

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where are they going to approve now neighborhood they're, they're, they're messing with our unity. it takes 10 years to re written down. they know what they're doing, a systematic genet that just a matter. well, those african american families who are displaced has to move somewhere. so those families we give in section 8 housing vouchers. the idea behind section 8 is fabulous. it's exactly what one would hope is that people who are impoverished have an opportunity to move into neighborhoods that are not impoverished. unfortunately, for black americans, it doesn't work that way. a large reason for that is, is you can still legally discriminate against someone for using a section 8 voucher. so landlords in most suburbs would not accept section 8 housing factors, and that's perfectly legal. white homeowners, definitely afraid of a black person moving next to them because blackness is associated with lower home values failure presidents and the labor. c can undermine the value of our home and

we're concerned, we'd like to move out before it becomes common knowledge that the family in the area it's nothing personal always never is ever was personal, but i feel real bad. we grew up in philadelphia, actually originally, and we were in an all black neighbourhood. and my life changed when we moved to south jersey not far from some of the levered town type of neighborhoods. and when we came in, the police had to come in with us because people were throwing things at our house and terrorizing our house at night. ah, we moved there because we wanted a place that was integrated and we just wanted to raise our standard of living and it was the strength of my parents that said, this is where we're going to be you think and grow family moving here will affect the community as a whole. definitely,

in what way i think that all the property values will go down if they are allowed to move in here in any number. do you think the miner thing and live at town will affect property values? i don't think that the myers have anything to do with a property decreasing or increase being i think it's purely a white problem, not a problem. well, as a result of all these policies, we created a segregated system and because we forgotten now this entire history of how it happened, white families believes that they got where they are simply by their own hard work and determination to succeed the middle class life. but they don't understand is that their parents could have came as an immigrant from a white country and immediately had access to known and the ability to move into white neighborhood black americans whose families had been citizens for generations could not. and so it's not saying that their families didn't work hard,

but it is saying that their families benefited from a great deal of affirmative action to get where they are. why don't there don't what it's like to live in these communities. and so because of that, they are unable to connect with what it is like to be in these areas that have been deprived of every type of opportunity. now, how do these community get seen? they go for decades and it's festering situations, theory and variegated community that have been completely abandoned. and suddenly we see them only when they burn something on the world. people wash my condition on the down and the rest of the nap. it doesn't even monthly medic,

the make it out what it is. i can't really say, man, murder. it happened the reasons we had not been willing to recognize this, right? we must understand where to do something about the dangers the faces. no, it shouldn't be that hard to understand why that becomes kind of the ultimate outcry, because it's the only way that these can become visible to most americans. the

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me what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have. it's crazy. even foundation, let it be an arms race is often very dramatic. development. only personally, i'm going to resist. i don't see how that strategy will be successful, very political time. time to sit down and talk i don't want anything. they think they are going to be, but i can't tell where is that on here, but you said you can get him. what are you going to john? your plan. when you get a new plan, let me pull on just a platter me in. and he wants to hear from you on on. it won't bother

me. you don't even use 1956. when i came out here with farms, i was 5 years old when i came here, 949. i came from the south branch. i thought it was for the future in that area. so that's good. and we did, we had a very in career with the police department. they took him out of the south bronx for the benefit of the community. now when i 1st became policemen, i was in the right squad in any right or any type of demonstration. it was in the city. i went to it mostly irish cops on the job, them and they were nasty. there tell you to move in, you move, you got the stick. i mean, there was a lot and you didn't, you didn't this bad protest or you want to put forth your right to protest. but you see guys putting holes in hoses so they can put out fires matches to businesses,

but to people's homes, you have a right to protest, but you don't have a right to do that. thinking of where do i look up for you but nothing. you haven't got out of where you are, who are you? finance. so it pretty easy to do. if you just follow my system step by step, it's so easy to make money and really say, and i'm planning to be a 1000000 that by age 25, i just got my 1st deal and i'm going to do many more like this for $1000000.00. 7 deals and $32.00 and $1.00 to me or you can do or to what do you waiting for? i on that one. that 1. 1 right over here. now the time to buy a home now is the time to buy a

tree to be no good for you. good for sure. so you try to be a little less crazy. he has a master service and regional planning from the university of minnesota. please give chuck. thank you. thank you. and a little bit about organization, strong towns organizations now evolved into a national movement of people trying to reconfigure their communities to be more financially sound post world war to america. the financing mechanisms of it

act very much like a ponzi scheme. you have this immediate sugar high with this long term liability kind of hanging out there in the future. and the last generation standing is the one that's gonna have to pick up the bill. we prayed on our fellow americans just so we could keep the growth going and nobody stopped to consider the impact that this was going to have on real people in real families. i was bird dog, finding foreclosures for other investors. i just saw that a majority of wealth create and united states was for real estate. so i was determined to follow that track. it was so much fine at the height of when we were making money. company had season take us to the lakers. right behind the lakers bench. so totally bryant's wife leonardo dicaprio,

literally right in front of us. and when he used to date, giselle and my foot will never forget. 15 years old yourself right in front of joseph hair is hanging over the back of her seat. in jeff goes, dad, why? because he starts playing with jazz l hair. oh my god. anyway, i digress a bit, but back in 9697, there's a new product that started for the market. it's called 125 percent loan to value. and when i 1st started seeing, i said this is a recipe for disaster. are you a homeowner with too many build too many high interest monthly payments? why not pay them off with a 2nd mortgage bill? and you love to 125 percent of the value of your whole less your 1st mortgage balance. they went after the payment buyer as well they did. hey, get a 50000 dollar 2nd for $500.00 a month. go by that boat. go buy that 2nd car. wasn't

a home improvement loan. it was a signature loan. did you could do whatever you want with. i just thought it was exceedingly irresponsible. loan product. i took advantage of it. he is taking so much. come on. good girl, mikey, mikey, mikey. hey, guys, no, no. the lenders got greedy and they figured okay, we exhausted the $125.00 potential for let's go make it super easy to get purchase money. now, if you were to ask me what the perfect credentials are to qualify for a home loan, i honestly couldn't tell you, may i help you, sir? i need a quick answer on a new home loan stated income, stated, employment, stated, stated, stated, which means whatever the borrower says is factual. as recently as the 1997,

you had to put 20 percent down and you had to struggle to save that kind of money in the past 4 or 5 years. and a bus boy from a local coffee shop can buy the same house for nothing will have to verify your credit. so well, credit. we don't have any if we can pay cash, we do without which thing the 2nd, the entire american economy. i mean, we're the century. oh, more than we can pay back in order for the house of cards to stay standing. it has to get bigger. so the guy that's in the 3 bedroom, one and a half bath house, he's got to move up to the 4 bedroom, 2 bath house, the house, the car just kept getting bigger and bigger and bigger and bigger, and bigger and bigger and bigger. and it's just all on fake valuations. ah yeah. at that point the home did absolutely become

a vehicle for excess home prices rising from the case schiller index. i look at the number and i say yes, this looks good. it's much better than expected. you look at the number and say, nobody knows where the home prices are going to do. oh, people are increasing back when they buy a house, a major concern is how much can i sell this to someone else at the other end. it can be called the greater fool. maybe i'm a fool device, that's a big house. but i'm going fell into an even greater for the people. there were people who thought 50 or 100 years ago that home prices should decry with time. and the reason is they were out the don't expect it to gain the expected lose value. that was

a common view in the past. for so long, we have come as a society to place a tremendous amount of value on the home itself. and the bigger the home, the better it's interesting because i live at town and the houses were meant to evolve and change as family evolved and changed over time. the idea was that this home would be livable all your life. you could have one bedroom or 3 bedrooms, depending on what your needs were at the time. and this area, what could be an extension of the living room, or to be close off and become a bedroom? close here. close here. and then you went to answer from the hall and so i have coming out from the

federal hallway now where all the entrances onto the bedrooms. so it could be either one bedroom or 3 bedroom right now. we create the one bedroom here and in the rear one bedroom that could be partitioned with a rolling wall so it will become 2 bedrooms. there was an extension of dynamic coming out of postwar idea of what the house provided wasn't really about the up scaling or the super sizing of the house. and so that relationship between the gr, the physical house was still somehow in balance. subsequently, people began to make the scale shift where the houses became just large. i'm in love with this indoor trains. hope and if i guess i don't think it is

your dining room with me. a lot of the 5000 square feet and the only ones they're going to be like back their kids. i feel like it's very track home in the attached office casita. it's really more suited for grandma. she doesn't really want to have a detached thing. grandma needs for foot ceilings mcmansions, they're going away, the dodo bird. people want to buy what they need and they don't want any extra. and this has so much square footage and wasted space. they might get away with one more sale, but in the years to come, it's going to be tougher and tougher. the higher ones

are fine here. there's just tremendous economic dependence on this idea that we can keep building new single family homes on their own lives. and that they have to keep marching across the us landscape because it's a huge part of what the economy depends on for it's health and wellbeing. don't take care. yes. so our property line is just basically the white picket fence all the way around. all the way back up to there. so we're going to our garden over here and chicken coop over there. gigi is a grand champion. not so much dodgy. so this whole industry of easy, quick money for property did not end at the retail borrower. developers were

exposed to these funds. so these companies were going in and buying a swat of land from these farmers at ridiculous prices. just given them enough money for their great grandchildren to retire. and it was just so hard to say no. and that's where you see all of the citrus farms in the inland empire gone the and of course the cities were loving it because the tax basis on real property with a house on it is far higher than farming cities were seeing their tax base couldn't topple literally overnight and and to develop stopped

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