NYTimes: In NYC, parents are paying their kids rent...and you wonder why economics are so racialized

[USSInsiders]

Coast guard

Nice. From Coastie to spitting bars

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

nikkas be like I gotta new job in Chattanooga Tennessee or Gary Indiana,

its usually some ware house job or something. not knocking brehs but if you make a move let that shyt make sense.

yeah...but it is what it is...you give blacks the chance to buy houses in major cities only 20-30 years ago, cause there were TONS of class action suits in the 80s and 90s, and we're supposed to have caught up to decades of government favoritism and leniency on behalf of white americans?

shyt really ain't 'fair.

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

And these dudes don't even work

Its not that they can't afford their apartments...its that they can't even be found doing productive shyt

 

[Geek Nasty]

didnt read but this isnt even a new york thing there are ALOT of white people living off their parents money anyone who hangs or grew up with white people know this

THIS. When people talk about institutional racism, this is what they mean. White Americans have so much wealth locked up generationally that even if pops isn't paying rent, they might be able to go back to grandma for it. Or, they might be broke as hell but still have land and a family home they've owned for decades.

Had a friend in college she was cool and all, but she'd tell people she paid her way through college. Didn't pay her rent, for her car, for her books, or her utilities, but since she paid for her tuition she "paid her way through college." And, you can bed that tuition money came out of some trust her grandfolks left for her.

That's the problem; too many of them don't know how good they've had it.

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

THIS. When people talk about institutional racism, this is what they mean. White Americans have so much wealth locked up generationally that even if pops isn't paying rent, they might be able to go back to grandma for it. Or, they might be broke as hell but still have land and a family home they've owned for decades.

Had a friend in college she was cool and all, but she'd tell people she paid her way through college. Didn't pay her rent, for her car, for her books, or her utilities, but since she paid for her tuition she "paid her way through college." And, you can bed that tuition money came out of some trust her grandfolks left for her.

That's the problem; too many of them don't know how good they've had it.

I worked for everything

 

[waltthizzney]

Most CACs in Art school in NYC live this way

you mean Toronto

 

[AmenhotepIV]

Thats that generational wealth

Waves

 

[Username]

And these dudes don't even work

Its not that they can't afford their apartments...its that they can't even be found doing productive shyt

To be fair, those featured in the article do have promising jobs/internships or are in grad school.

 

[Frida Giezman]

Most of the young black and hispanics i know (myself included) have never been kicked out

Lol my mom was threatening to kick me out since I was in high school

Now granted she kicked me out a few times to go live with my grandmother but always asked me to come back home

But there wasn't a day that went by that she wasn't reminding me who's house (rental apartment) it was and if I didn't like it I could get the fukk out

I love my mom to death but she's a bug out

I noticed a lot of parents from the previous generation think they did their job if their children reached the age of 18 or 21 and weren't dead or in jail

Parenting is so much more than a race against the clock so to speak

 

[Frida Giezman]

Lucky you. I gotta bust my ass. Everyday for what I have. my parents had no houses owned. No cars. No land. No businesses. No life insurance. Both gone.

And I'm outchea, just getting it. With no margin for error.

It's a reality that a lot of us face.

Stay up bro

I'm in the same boat but my parents still here

I'm scared for what's gonna become of my family

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

How the Federal Government Built White Suburbia
Federal housing policies didn’t just deny opportunities to black residents. They subsidized and safeguarded whites-only neighborhoods.

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A 2007 photo of 52 Oaktree Lane in Levittown, New York. (Mary Altaffer/AP)
Just two minutes into the first address at the 2015 National Fair Housing Conference on Tuesday, the conversation turned to Show Me a Hero. It was only a matter of time. Housing policy and Winona Ryder just don’t intersect that often.

But the conversation got real just as quickly. Richard Rothstein, a research associate at the Economic Policy Institute, gave a barn-burner of an address at the conference, a program convened by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.

“We’ve all forgotten how federal, state, and local governments consciously segregated our metropolitan areas by race,” Rothstein said.

His speech is a potent reminder. Rothstein delivered his address on modern residential segregation last year at The Atlantic’s “Reinventing the War on Poverty” conference. It’s worth your time to read the full talk. The rough outline below covers many of the policy levers that leaders at all level of government used to build and safeguard white residential areas.

The Federal Government Built Exclusively White Neighborhoods

• Federally funded public housing got its start in the New Deal. From the very beginning, public housing was segregated by race. Harold L. Ickes, the U.S. Secretary of the Interior and the most liberal member of President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s brain trust, proposed the “neighborhood composition rule,” which said that segregated public housing would preserve the segregated character of neighborhoods. (This was the liberal position. Conservatives preferred to build no public housing for black people at all.)
• After World War II, the Federal Housing Administration (a precursor to HUD) and the Veterans Administration hired builders to mass-produce American suburbs—from Levittown near New York to Daly City in the Bay Area—in order to ease the post-war housing shortage. Builders received federal loans on the explicit condition that homes would not be sold to black homebuyers.
• The Housing Act of 1949, a tentpole of President Harry Truman’s Fair Deal, greatly expanded the reach of the public housing program, which was then producing the most popular form of housing (!) in the country. In an effort to kill the bill, conservatives tried to tack on a “poison pill” to the legislation: an amendment that would have required public housing to be integrated.

Government Policy Guided Segregation at the Neighborhood Level

• Way back in 1917, after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down certain segregation rules, Baltimore launched an official Committee on Segregation as a workaround. The committee organized neighborhood associations in order to promote restrictive covenants and otherwise intimidate white homeowners or real-estate agents who were selling to black buyers.
• In St. Louis, segregated housing developments replaced neighborhoods that were roughly 55 percent white and 45 percent black.
• San Francisco wanted to build integrated public housing near the Hunters Point Shipyard development, but the Navy wouldn’t allow it.
• In 1984, The Dallas Morning News surveyed federally funded housing projects in 47 metro areas. All of them and their 10 million residents were segregated by race. The white projects that remained by the 1980s had better facilities, amenities, and maintenance than the others.

Ghettoes Are the Mirror of White Suburbs

• Pruitt–Igoe, the notorious and short-lived public housing project in St. Louis, was designed to be segregated. Pruitt was for blacks, Igoe was for whites. But by the time the development was completed in 1955, the housing shortage had grown less pressing for whites (thanks to efforts to repopulate them in the suburbs). The waiting list for Pruitt was long; Igoe experienced vacancies. Before Pruitt–Igoe met its early demise, its towers were entirely opened to black residents, like most formerly whites-only housing projects.

Courts Often Endorse a Myth of ‘De Facto’ Segregation

• In 1974, Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart argued in Milliken v. Bradley—a case about busing—that segregation in Detroit schools was caused by “unknown and unknowable factors.”
• As recently as 2007, Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer and Chief Justice John Roberts ruled (in Parents Involved in Community Schools v. Seattle School District No. 1 ) that racially segregated neighborhoods were the result of de facto isolation, not de jure segregation. (Meaning that residential segregation was a matter of choice among residents, not consequence decided by law.)

A Federal Project Like Levittown Cannot Be Undone Locally

• In 1947, white buyers could purchase homes in Levittown for $8,000 (which is roughly $84,000 in 2015 dollars). Today, the median housing value in Levittown is $365,000, per Census data. The Long Island suburb built more than 17,000 Levitt homes, nearly all of which were leased or purchased by whites, thanks to racial covenants guided originally by the terms of the Federal Housing Administration loans.
• While African Americans are allowed to live in Levittown now, they by and large do not: The city’s population is 89 percent white and less than 1 percent black. New York City, meanwhile, is 26 percent black and just 44 percent white.

There’s more to Rothstein’s talk than a laundry-list of dates and figures, so read his essays about the root causes of contemporary segregation. Start here or here or here or here. His challenge is consistent throughout.

“Government thinks things done by accident can only be remedied by accident,” he said. “Things done on purpose can only be remedied on purpose.”

An aerial photo of Levittown taken in 1950. (AP)

 

[Lord_Chief_Rocka]

How the Federal Government Built White Suburbia

:ohwell:

If only the government could have delivered on the "but equal " part

 

[Yehuda]

As recently as 2007, Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer and Chief Justice John Roberts ruled (in Parents Involved in Community Schools v. Seattle School District No. 1 ) that racially segregated neighborhoods were the result of de facto isolation, not de jure segregation. (Meaning that residential segregation was a matter of choice among residents, not consequence decided by law.)

That part had me heated.

 

[Amerikan Melanin]

Nothing wrong with this. However there is history to it and this is why black people deserve reparations. Generational wealth is no accident. Blacks were not given GI loans after they served in WW2 like white soldiers were. During reconstruction blacks were not given any of the land or equipment they were promised. Black people pay higher rates for mortgages when they are finally given one. shyt goes deep.

 

[Wild self]

You want your grown ass children living at home with you?

If you view your kids as a burden, and not set them up to have wealth passed down to them, then maybe you shouldn'thave them in the first place. Too many black parents view their kids as a burden, only to wonder why their kids never keep in contact with them in their later years when they get old.

Me? I rather be a millionaire before kids come through and pass down a lot. As long as they are working to build WEALTH, then they are welcome to stay.