Levittown Pros And Cons

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White families have benefited from a racist system without personally even being racist. This system was created and sustained by our federal government through the Federal Housing Administration. Suburban homes like Levittown came with certain policies that limited minorities from purchasing a home in that area. It wasn’t Levittown either, many suburban communities followed suit. The FHA enabled this type of segregation by creating disparity through the process of redlining. In “The Realty Code”, it states that “the FHA underwriting manuals not only adopted the phraseology of “inharmonious races and classes,” but advocated racial restrictions, physical barriers, racial covenant, and racial zoning as methods of excluding certain racial and

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