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In California it will never get resolved at a city level since cities are almost all against upzoning. Agreed that state is appropriate place to handle it thoug
by surfmike 7y ago
In California it will never get resolved at a city level since cities are almost all against upzoning. Agreed that state is appropriate place to handle it though (not federal).
- harryh 7y agoI have a vague hope that the city governments in question will, at some point, stop being awful. I am willing to admit that this hope might be irrational and wishful thinking.
- DoreenMichele 7y agoSome of the problem is actually at the federal level. That makes it tough for cities to solve it.
- tptacek 7y agoWhat parts of San Diego, LA, and San Francisco's housing problems are at the federal level?
- DoreenMichele 7y agoI don't know. I do know federal policies and programs significantly impact the kind of housing that gets built. It strongly favors single family detached homes in its various programs, including financing instruments. Federal programs post WW2 were involved in the birth of the modern day suburb. We wanted housing and we created it in droves. We created a particular kind of housing -- single family detached designed for the nuclear family. That became our standard and remains our standard.
- surfmike 7y agoCitation? We also created a lot of public housing projects in cities after WWII.
- DoreenMichele 7y agoIn a nutshell, America had a huge pent up demand for housing because of the Great Depression which immediately preceded WW2. Large numbers of American men served in the military during WW2, nominally granting "all" of them the same benefits, including access to help with mortgages. In practice, this mostly went to white soldiers. The Birth And Death Of America's Oldest Suburb is about Levittown. https://thecommunityalliance.blogspot.com/2005/08/birth-and-death-of-americas-oldest.html https://thecommunityalliance.blogspot.com/2005/08/birth-and-... Levittown gets its name from its builder, the firm of Levitt & Sons, Inc. ... which built the district as a planned community for returning World War II veterans between 1947 and 1951. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levittown,_New_York https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levittown,_New_York The G.I. Bill aimed to help American World War II veterans adjust to civilian life by providing them with benefits including low-cost mortgages, low-interest loans and financial support. African Americans did not benefit nearly as much as White Americans. Historian Ira Katznelson argues that "the law was deliberately designed to accommodate Jim Crow". In the New York and northern New Jersey suburbs 67,000 mortgages were insured by the G.I. Bill, but fewer than 100 were taken out by non-whites. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_Americans_and_the_G.I._Bill https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_Americans_and_the_G.I.... In the United States, suburbanization began to occur in mass amounts after World War II, when soldiers returned home from war and wanted to live in houses outside of the city. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suburbanization https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suburbanization The rapid growth of homeownership and the rise of suburban communities helped drive the postwar economic boom. Suburban neighborhoods of single-family homes tore their way through the outskirts of cities. William Levitt built the first Levittown, the archetype suburban community, in 1946 in Long Island, New York. The country’s suburban share of the population rose from 19.5% in 1940 to 30.7% by 1960. Homeownership rates rose from 44% in 1940 to almost 62% in 1960. https://courses.lumenlearning.com/ushistory2ay/chapter/the-rise-of-suburbs-2/ https://courses.lumenlearning.com/ushistory2ay/chapter/the-r...