Dreams Deferred: Public Policy, Racial Discrimination, and Housing Hasan Kwame Jeffries, PhD The Ohio State University Urban Studies Institute Session: History Speaks-- Exploring the Significance of Place Saturday, March 8, 2014 Columbus, Ohio
The “Not-so-free-states” The Jim Crow North Antebellum segregation Post bellum Black Codes
The Promised Land? The Great Migration Southern Exodus Northern White Response
“Not my house, not my neighborhood:” Homeowners and Housing Discrimination Refusal to sell Restrictive covenants Homeowners associations Violence White flight
“Sorry, we can’t help you:” Housing Industry and Racial Discrimination Landlords Real estate agents Bankers Insurance agents Developers
Finding a way around: Dr. Ossian Sweet (1925)
A Raw Deal The New Deal and the FHA
“De Jure or De Facto:” Public Policy and State Action “Neighborhood Stability” (FHA Requirement 1940s) Urban Renewal begins (1949) Interstate highway program starts (1956)
“Dreams and Nightmares:” Creating the Suburbs Public policy Private development Personal beliefs Personal behavior
Concentrating Poverty Public housing programs (1950s-1960s)
Cracking the Housing Market Shelly v. Kraemer (1948) Changing Hearts and Minds (1950s) Looking for Jackie Robinson Open Housing
“Choice was a white freedom” Housing and Opportunity