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Because if you moved to a new town you were in a different school district. The great migration to the suburbs happened right after schools were desegregated i
by momokoko 6y ago
Because if you moved to a new town you were in a different school district.
The great migration to the suburbs happened right after schools were desegregated in the US.
White Americans moved to the suburbs to avoid their children from attending school with black children. Milliken v. Bradley was the last nail in the coffin.
The return to cities has coincided with white people having less children and children at older ages along with less racist views.
- titzer 6y agoThis started happening already in the 1950s before desegregation. The rise of suburbs is directly related to the boom years after WWII and how much development happened outside of cities, where throwing up a new subdivision was much cheaper, and the booming auto industry absolutely loved new demand for commuting.
- bobthepanda 6y agoAlso, the FHA and the GI Bill provided cheap loans to buy single use housing for veterans, which were a significant chunk of the population. You can't really get an FHA loan to buy an apartment in a mixed-use building. (On paper Black people were also entitled to GI bill benefits, but in practice this didn't really happen.) From Wikipedia: > In the New York and northern New Jersey suburbs about 67,000 mortgages were insured by the G.I. Bill, but fewer than 100 were taken out by non-white veterans.
- madamelic 6y ago> the rise of suburbs is directly related to the boom years after WWII The idea of suburbs was created by Levitt & Sons when building Levittown, PA post-WWII. A neighborhood that had explicit terms that the owners would not sell or rent to non-white people. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levittown,_New_York https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levittown,_New_York