the Cathartic express

Suburbanization

the advent of automobiles

Federal policy 

During this time period suburbanization was taking place and a few things were at work that kept blacks and other minorities from accessing wealth. From which owning a home in this time period whites were able to hoard generational wealth and were incentivized to own a home because of the tax write offs. Many of the federal aid provided went to constructing newer homes in the suburbs because of migration of blacks and immigrants to urban areas. Even if migration was only assumed and not realized, whites moved to the suburbs. Urban Renewal or as Timuel Black would say “Negro Removal” cities had given Eminent Domain to Landlords to remove their residents as long as the Landlord was properly compensated. Urban areas were largely black, as America had a declining immigrant population because this era immigrants were restricted to their county because of geopolitical conditions and coming out of the depression, immigrant policy was halted https://www.uscis.gov/about-us/our-history/overview-of-agency-history/post-war-years#:~:text=Reforming%20Immigration%20Policy&text=The%201952%20law%20removed%20all,retained%20the%20national%20origins%20quotas.

Also with the advent of automobiles whites were able to move to the suburbs were the newer homes were being built, and access to those suburbs was via highways and expressways placed right over impoverished areas with a high population of blacks and/or migrants.  During this time period around 1945 people had been rationing their consumption and saving their monies at around 21%, and buy the wars end they were able to buy homes and appliances, cars and the such. Again, blacks were not able to enjoy these lavish luxuries, because of racist policy and redlining happening in this era. https://www.history.com/news/post-world-war-ii-boom-economy 

Redlining was purely racist and was adopted by the FHA from HOLC, who had constructed the Residential Survey map which served as a guideline of places to avoid for realtors and potential home owners, but also a tool of where to invest federal money. It was an assault on black wealth from many different industries, construction, realty, government aid, small business ownership, housing market. It also served as a social identifier as to whom was not worthy of respect, and dignity.

This week’s reading by Kenneth Jackson summarized how the FHA adopted the racist policies and the racist mapping of the cities from the HOLC called Residential Security Maps. These maps would map out where declining neighborhoods were located and would be a potential risk for pay back or were largely black or minority and so the FHA would not lend to these sections of the map. This helps to define why certain cities are literal ghost towns right now, but they had begun to look this way in the 70s and 80s and only got worse over time. Place like Detroit and Flint Michigan, Englewood, Chicago are shells of what they were in the 80s and 90s. Neighborhoods are vacant, grass if overgrown, broken windows in old industrial buildings, breeding ground for drug use and violent crime. America built the ghetto, white flight and Suburbia intentionally and now cities are begging for people to patronize local businesses and downtown city centers.

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I have this thing for minimalist eclectic home design, I love classic looks, but to be eclectic is everything to me. Or is that just what people who are hard up say when they don't have money for a full living room set?? Either way it allows you to be free and create your own look.

I hate when there is no visual stimulation or your not inspired by anything when you walk into a room. I have an affinity for vintage and rustic pieces of furniture as well. I should also mention I hate things that overwhelming match, like beige couch and tan carpet, and brown curtains YUCK!!

I'm not all that creative but I can copy something or I can be given an idea and run with it to recreate.

I am currently working on my own apartment to make it into something I can be inspired by when I come home.