Week 4 Post 3

 Week 4 Post 3- informal summary

    This chapter was entitled 'own your own home' and was about the government organizations that financed housing for white families and how black families suffered because of it. This chapter took me a little while because it was a lot of information about real estate and all the details of the financial part of buying a house, which I knew very little about and was confusing for me. I got through most of that, but I didn't choose to include it in my research since most of it is not super relevant to my main point. I was very interested in the story of the Berkley teacher who was blacklisted from the FHA for leasing his home to a black man in 1958. This book has really put into perspective how recent all of these policies were created. There are some many people alive who can recount their stories of living in the U.S. as a black person during this time, who were adults while this was all happening. This chapter really emphasized that.

Some questions I have going forward:

- How did the author find the people to interview, and why did he choose them specifically? Does he have other accounts I can find that are not shared in the book?

- I would love to learn more about the connection to the cold war the housing crisis and the push to buy homes had, it seems very interesting

- With communities such as the one that put up a wall to separate it from the black neighborhood next to it, do these physical barriers still exist today?

- How have zoning ordinances changed in many of these cities regarding commercial development, or have they at all?

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