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  1. Jan 2023
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    The Making of Ferguson: Public Policies at the Root of its Troubles
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    1. sbitew 31 Jan 2023
      By keeping black families out of the better-off suburbs, segregation not only deprived them of the opportunity to build wealth through rising home equity, but contributed to (and was reinforced by) what urban scholars term the “spatial mismatch” between the neighborhoods where African Americans mostly lived, and the better suburban jobs they had difficulty accessing.

      Many of the negative stereotypes associated with African Americans are a result of the systematic destabilization of communities through housing segregation, education disparity, and economic instability.

    2. sbitew 31 Jan 2023
      Some federal urban renewal laws required that displaced residents be provided with new housing, but others did not.

      This reminds me of the displacement of Auroria residents when the University was built.

    3. sbitew 31 Jan 2023
      With FHA mortgages mostly unavailable, families bought homes with mortgages having very short repayment periods, or with contracts that permitted no accumulation of equity. Late installment payments could trigger repossession.

      Forced people into instability because the policies they had signed onto, guaranteed that it would be difficult and nearly impossible to pay off their mortgages.

    4. sbitew 31 Jan 2023
      ederal Housing Administration (FHA) was established during the New Deal, these zoning practices rendered African American homes ineligible for mortgage guarantees, because FHA underwriting principles considered “inharmonious uses”

      The policies undermined the housing and financial stability of African American communities.

    5. sbitew 31 Jan 2023
      he black population of St. Louis was small, but somewhat integrated with white low-wage workers and their families, including European immigrants.

      Although many Black Americans have roots in America that date back to slavery, they were left at the same and even lower economic and social status of immigrants who were new to the country.

    6. sbitew 31 Jan 2023
      “segregated housing in the St. Louis metropolitan area was … in large measure the result of deliberate racial discrimination in the housing market by the real estate industry and by agencies of the federal, state, and local governments.”

      Although it was acknowledged by the government back in 1974, this type of discrimination is still evident. In fact, with gentrification, white populations are moving into "ghetto" communities and pushing out minorities. The opposite of white flight?

    7. sbitew 31 Jan 2023
      We had patrols on the hour. Our streets were swept neatly, monthly.

      Police were not seen as a threat to white communities. They provided security neighborhoods. Whereas, now police are often feared in many Black communities and are not seen as protection but punishment.

    8. sbitew 31 Jan 2023
      Within that area, whites are now a solid majority in some neighborhoods for the first time in decades.

      Growth of white populations is encouraged when you compare their resources and stability to that of African Americans, who have been systematically destabilized through underfunded schools and under-resourced communities.

    9. sbitew 31 Jan 2023
      This arrangement persisted until 1975 – several years after the Williams family moved into their white Ferguson neighborhood – when federal courts ordered Berkeley, Ferguson, and other white towns to integrate their schools into a common district with Kinloch.3

      Segregation far after Brown vs. Board of Education hearing

    10. sbitew 31 Jan 2023
      white families came to associate African Americans with slum characteristics

      There was a systematic characterization of African Americans that stemmed from government policies that forced communities to have a lower quality of living.

    11. sbitew 31 Jan 2023
      federal subsidies for suburban development conditioned on African American exclusion;

      i.e. The development of highways in marginalized communities.

    13. sbitew 31 Jan 2023
      abandoning the town to African Americans who were trying to escape poor schools in the city.

      Were they able to escape resource disparity or did it follow since White flight probably took a lot of funding and resources away from the community as those in better financial situations left these communities?

    14. sbitew 31 Jan 2023
      had come to associate with inner cities now duplicated in a formerly white suburban community

      How did these conditions transition into white suburbs?

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