Week 2 Post 3

 Week 2 Post 3- Informal reflection

    This weeks chapter was titles public housing, black ghettos. The chapter went through how segregation has affected public housing's history in the U.S. The chapter started with an overview of how public housing became a much bigger issue after WWII with lots of veterans needing homes in a difficult market. It explained that the first projects that were not created specifically for defense work were commissioned by the new deal during the great depression. When projects started getting built more frequently in the 1950s, cities like ATL began demolishing already integrated neighborhoods to create segregated projects. This happened in many different cities, but as black people began to be the majority of those needing public housing, cities found it much more difficult to keep projects segregated. When Japanese Americans were put in internment camps during WWII, many public housing spaces opened up to African Americans and helped their problem slightly. When cities began getting push to integrate projects, San Fransisco started allowing white families to live in black projects, but would not allow black families to live in white projects. Black families still struggled to get into public housing, and there were black families living in temporary wartime projects 25 years after WWII ended. Black people continued to be trapped in public housing by public policies such as the one in Miami, which allowed vouchers for white people to purchase private property but excluded black people, which was in effect until 1998. 

   The next chapter focuses on private housing, here are some of my questions going forward:

- I would like to learn more about the midwest, I learn a little about the northwest in the next chapter but I'd love to get a more local perspective.

- What were the specific differences between each president during this time, and did any of them feel opposed to segregation? How did the legislature at the time effect this choice?

- What is the current state of the aftermath of the public housing crisis in Des Moines?

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  1. Ms. DunleyApril 11, 2023 at 1:17 PM

    Did they cover any current situation information on public housing projects such as the ones in Chicago? What additional social situations were created due to these public housing developments?

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    1. Sofia ReamMay 15, 2023 at 3:13 PM

      Chicago remains an incredibly racial divided city. As I talk about later in the blog, the city was a central for race riots from the 60s to the 80s. There are divides between cultural areas, and schools are still very white in the suburbs of the city, while city school are predominately non-white.

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