It was an explicit written federal policy of the federal government, which is why this can't be considered de facto segregation.” This was not the action of rogue bureaucrats. And on that basis, they did so and he built that project. The only way he could do it was by going to the Federal Housing Administration and Veterans Administration, making a commitment, never to sell a home to an African-American, if they would guarantee his bank loans. Levitt the developer of Levittown, and any of these other developers could never have assembled the capital on his own to build 17,000 homes in one place. But these were created all over the country, creating a white noose around every metropolitan area. It embarked on a program to move the entire white working-class and middle-class population out of urban areas into single family homes in all-white suburbs… The biggest of these was Levittown, east of New York City - 17,000 homes. The federal government created suburbs mostly for returning World War II veterans, but for working and middle-class families generally. On his investigation into housing policies: “We weren't a suburban country before the 1940s, 1950s. In this episode of Talks at GS, author Richard Rothstein discusses his investigation into housing policies that shaped American cities in the 20th century and why housing remains central to the national conversation on racial equity.
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