The relationship between housing and wealth has allowed heritage of racial inequality remain to this day by making black families persist on a lower economical level even though they posses the same income as white families. The government plays an important role on these two variables with occurrences such as the 1910 immigrants situation, 1920 alien land acts forbidding non whites the ownership of land, 1930 federal housing administration, Roosevelt’s New Deal, “urban renewal”, Fair Housing Act on 1968 and 50s to 60s house market growth, among others. Owning a house in the suburbs became a new social definition for whiteness; and racial instability has been the result of the government’s slow transition to social equality.
On the 1910s immigrants were the ones in America running the factories and mines. They came to the United States to establish in a society that already had a history of racial inequality towards blacks and minorities. The terminology of the …show more content…
Instead of 50% of sales price up front, it lowered significantly, and this allowed more citizens to actually get a house. One of the most popular and successful new communities was Levittown, and the American dream was now suburbia. Still, for black people this was not a possibility until later on, when they tried to get a house the only problem was their skin color, the rationalization was big enough to the point that selling a house to a black person meant lowering the prices and try to move in black communities. Many of them persisted for a long time in city ghettos, while some others went through this process and saw how little by little white people left these communities and more blacks came along. These city ghettos went through the process of “urban renewal”, which was “making cities more livable” and this caused two thirds of the nonwhite population to loose their
On the 1910s immigrants were the ones in America running the factories and mines. They came to the United States to establish in a society that already had a history of racial inequality towards blacks and minorities. The terminology of the …show more content…
Instead of 50% of sales price up front, it lowered significantly, and this allowed more citizens to actually get a house. One of the most popular and successful new communities was Levittown, and the American dream was now suburbia. Still, for black people this was not a possibility until later on, when they tried to get a house the only problem was their skin color, the rationalization was big enough to the point that selling a house to a black person meant lowering the prices and try to move in black communities. Many of them persisted for a long time in city ghettos, while some others went through this process and saw how little by little white people left these communities and more blacks came along. These city ghettos went through the process of “urban renewal”, which was “making cities more livable” and this caused two thirds of the nonwhite population to loose their