That number, $171 billion, was equivalent to the 2008 budgets for the Department of Education, the Department of Veterans Affairs, the Department of Homeland Security, the Department of Justice, and the Department of Agriculture combined. One of the best book quotes about housing discrimination, “Today it is perfectly legal to discriminate against criminals in nearly all the ways that it was once legal to discriminate against African Americans. Sincerely, Marian Griswold”, “A government offering such bounty to builders and lenders could have required compliance with a nondiscrimination policy. Although the burden fell most heavily upon African-Americans, they were not the only ethnic group affected by housing discrimination during this era. And other than the doctor (who made house calls), the store managers, the minister, the salesman, and the banker, everyone belonged to a union. The house she found in the white neighborhood, Clybourne Park, was the best house she could get for the money. Instead, the FHA adopted a racial policy that could well have been culled from the Nuremberg laws.”, “In Chicago and across the country, whites looking to achieve the American dream could rely on a legitimate credit system backed by the government. “Clark Foreman proposed a Detroit development, the Sojourner Truth Homes, for African Americans.

Decent, affordable housing should be a basic right for everybody in this country. (138)”, “The American real-estate industry believed segregation to be a moral principle. ", “A government offering such bounty to builders and lenders could have required compliance with a nondiscrimination policy. Welcome back. 10 likes. Blacks were herded into the sights of unscrupulous lenders who took them for money and for sport.”, “Dollar for dollar, no other society approaches the United States in terms of the number of square feet per person, the number of baths per bedroom, the number of appliances in the kitchen, the quality of the climate control, and the convenience of the garage.

Carriages still roll along the streets, concerts are still crowded by subscribers, the shops for expensive luxuries still find daily customers, while the workman loiters away his unemployed time in watching these things, and thinking of the pale, uncomplaining wife at home, and the wailing children asking in vain for enough of food--of the sinking health, of the dying life of those near and dear to him.

We’ve just made choices about how to spend it. When you purchase books using links on our website, Bookroo or its affiliates may receive a small commission (at no added cost to you). “Government's commitment to separating residential areas by race began nationwide following the violent suppression of Reconstruction after 1877. We’ve just made choices about how to spend it. You cannot evict Mrs. Tuttle, who is the legal resident of the apartment, because she is not living here. Just an Ordinary Day: The Uncollected Stories, Suburban Nation: The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream, What Killed Jane Creba: Rap, Race, and the Invention of a Gang War, Dystopia: How The Tyranny of Specialists Fragment African Cities, The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America. People of colour were not able to invest in housing that could then be passed on down through generations, forming the sort of wealth that many white people have.”, “In postcolonial Africa, single dwelling housing is the biggest perpetrator of urban segregation.”, “Debates on housing policy have denigrated into shouting matches merely about ethics, values and rights. State insurance regulators had no objection to this stance. Unless you accept my check you are not going to receive any rent for the apartment at all because you cannot rent it to anyone else while I am living here because you cannot evict me so they could move in. Fact: Big banks have been hiding their bloated home inventory, seized by virtue of home foreclosures.”, “Competition permits the capitalist to deduct from the price of labour power that which the family earns from its own little garden or field; the workers are compelled to accept any piece wages offered to them, because otherwise they would get nothing at all, and they could not live from the products of their small-scale agriculture alone, and because, on the other hand, it is just this agriculture and landownership which chains them to the spot and prevents them from looking around for other employment.”, “If it is asserted that civilization is a real advance in the condition of man — and I think that it is, though only the wise improve their advantages — it must be shown that it has produced better dwellings without making them more costly; and the cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.”, “At all times it is a bewildering thing to the poor weaver to see his employer removing from house to house, each one grander than the last, till he ends in building one more magnificent than all, or withdraws his money from the concern, or sells his mill, to buy an estate in the country, while all the time the weaver, who thinks he and his fellows are the real makers of this wealth, is struggling on for bread for his children, through the vicissitudes of lowered wages, short hours, fewer hands employed, etc. “THE ARRANGEMENTS AT the green house had become slightly peculiar, for Roen had decided to take the house back from Brigan and give it to Fire. They enter their cars and embark on a journey of banality and hostility that lasts until they arrive that interior of their next destination. Quotes tagged as "housing-discrimination" Showing 1-7 of 7 “But equal treatment in an unequal society could still foster inequality. Your support helps us continue to discover and share incredible kids books! What does government have to do with it, you ask? State-regulated insurance companies, like the Equitable Life Insurance Company and the Prudential Life Insurance Company, also declared that their policy was not to issue mortgages to whites in integrated neighborhoods. As late as 1950, the National Association of Real Estate Boards' code of ethics warned that "a Realtor should never be instrumental in introducing into a neighborhood ... any race or nationality, or any individuals whose presence will clearly be detrimental to property values." Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City, Some of My Best Friends Are Black: The Strange Story of Integration in America, The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America. 57 Today, housing-related tax expenditures far outpace those for housing assistance.

“We have the money. As President Johnson has said, we need to build a "second America" between now and the year 2000.

In return for all that, the country became the most productive in the world and in our little neighborhood it meant your furnace was always working, your kids could be dropped off at the neighbors without notice, you could run next door anytime to borrow a half-dozen eggs, and the doors to all the homes were never locked -- because who would need to steal anything if they already had all that they needed?”. This observation captures the discrimination that has made it harder for African Americans to rise above their difficult circumstances and find decent urban housing. A 1943 brochure specified that such potential undesireables might include madams, bootleggers, gangsters - and "a colored man of means who was giving his children a college education and thought they were entitled to live among whites. Polarised debates where socialism is regarded glorious and capitalism disastrous.”, “By turning houses into property, they have failed to fulfil their function as homes: whether it's in the aftermath of the financial crisis in the US, evicting families to protect the profits of banks, or the selling off of council houses in the UK. Separate entrance it would say in the ads, and that meant you could have sex, unobserved.”, “Universal housing programs have been successfully implemented all over the developed world. Decent, ... tags: housing, housing-crisis, housing-discrimination, housing-subsidies, poverty. But corporations aren’t interested in the messy ebb and flow of humanity. We use cookies to ensure you get the best experience on our website. 62 quotes have been tagged as housing: Matthew Desmond: ‘it is hard to argue that housing is not a fundamental human need. Just a moment while we sign you in to your Goodreads account. Simultaneously, and through the 1920s and the Hoover administration, the government conducted a propaganda campaign directed at white middle-class families to persuade them to move out of apartments and into single-family dwellings. 32 This drastic shortfall in government support, coupled with rising rent and utility costs alongside stagnant incomes, is the reason why most poor renting families today spend most of their income on housing.”, “I want a house that’s mobile but stationary, situated in a safe place without borders, where the people are peace-loving.”, “When you earn your freedom, make decisions wisely in order to pursue economic and social success in the long run.”, “On top of all that, there’s government. The middle classes who think that string, Scotch tape, and spit will get us out of our present dilemma must be convinced otherwise. We need to construct new, integrated towns. The Bank of America and other leading California banks had similar policies, also with the consent of federal banking regulators.”, “...Vito Marcantonio of New York, who argued on the the House floor that “you have no right to use housing against civil rights...Housing is advanced in the interest of the general welfare and in the interest of strength[en]ing democracy. We need to build schools, hospitals, mass transit systems. Blacks were herded into the sights of unscrupulous lenders who took them for money and for sport.”. Quotes tagged as "housing-discrimination", “But equal treatment in an unequal society could still foster inequality. In the U.S., that's what caused the development of ghettos. We must build millions of low-income housing units, tear down the slums, and rebuild our cities.