Also that would have meant white people would have to live in close proximity to brown and black people which is
For real though I believe white flight is at least 50% of the reason we have suburbs with the other being a planned psyop by the then growing car industry alongside Eisenhower’s interstate development initiatives having no other meat on those bones (i.e. funding for roads/highways but no concept of how people would live and integrate with those roads).
I’d point to white flight as the primary reason for suburbs (like 90% lol). As Jim Crow ended and the Second Great Migration began, suburbs started to pop up as redlining went into effect or PoC were scammed.
One of the common rackets orchestrated by real estate agencies, city councils, banks, and development companies was to offer black first-time homeowners cheap deals on housing in cities. They would collect the down payment, let a family move in, then ambush them with bullshit inspections. Of course, they’d find something wrong not disclosed before the purchase, which was then used to deem the home unsafe or get it condemned. The black family would then be evicted and the scam would repeat.
Real estate agents would then go around to neighboring houses and say “Look what happened when those blacks moved in! They trashed their house! Your property values are at risk if another black family moves in. Sell your home to us and we’ll make sure you get a good deal.” They’d repeat the scam again with another house, so now you have multiple houses where black people are moved in, their money taken, then evicted.
Eventually, the whole neighborhood would be black and the homes sabotaged and flipped so many times the houses were no longer worth holding onto. Whoever was the most recent owner was left holding the bag. At this point, white families moved out of urban areas into newly developed suburbs. They created de-facto segregation while making money the entire time. City officials got kickbacks to look the other way as financial institutions ravaged neighborhoods.
This was one of the topics that comes up when discussing reparations. Most of these families may not be able to prove they’re descended from slaves, but they can prove how they were given bogus mortgages and had their entire life savings wiped out. Not to mention, redlining still occurs today, where PoC are denied home loans despite their good credit. And of course, the reactionaries obfuscate what these court cases are about, saying people are just looking for handouts based on being black.
Gotta love how capitalism so easily and readily uses racism to make money, truly nothing problematic in that, and now we have all of this because of it
Also that would have meant white people would have to live in close proximity to brown and black people which is
For real though I believe white flight is at least 50% of the reason we have suburbs with the other being a planned psyop by the then growing car industry alongside Eisenhower’s interstate development initiatives having no other meat on those bones (i.e. funding for roads/highways but no concept of how people would live and integrate with those roads).
I’d point to white flight as the primary reason for suburbs (like 90% lol). As Jim Crow ended and the Second Great Migration began, suburbs started to pop up as redlining went into effect or PoC were scammed.
One of the common rackets orchestrated by real estate agencies, city councils, banks, and development companies was to offer black first-time homeowners cheap deals on housing in cities. They would collect the down payment, let a family move in, then ambush them with bullshit inspections. Of course, they’d find something wrong not disclosed before the purchase, which was then used to deem the home unsafe or get it condemned. The black family would then be evicted and the scam would repeat.
Real estate agents would then go around to neighboring houses and say “Look what happened when those blacks moved in! They trashed their house! Your property values are at risk if another black family moves in. Sell your home to us and we’ll make sure you get a good deal.” They’d repeat the scam again with another house, so now you have multiple houses where black people are moved in, their money taken, then evicted.
Eventually, the whole neighborhood would be black and the homes sabotaged and flipped so many times the houses were no longer worth holding onto. Whoever was the most recent owner was left holding the bag. At this point, white families moved out of urban areas into newly developed suburbs. They created de-facto segregation while making money the entire time. City officials got kickbacks to look the other way as financial institutions ravaged neighborhoods.
This was one of the topics that comes up when discussing reparations. Most of these families may not be able to prove they’re descended from slaves, but they can prove how they were given bogus mortgages and had their entire life savings wiped out. Not to mention, redlining still occurs today, where PoC are denied home loans despite their good credit. And of course, the reactionaries obfuscate what these court cases are about, saying people are just looking for handouts based on being black.
Gotta love how capitalism so easily and readily uses racism to make money, truly nothing problematic in that, and now we have all of this because of it