Hamartia Antidote
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That was also based on race and was called White Flight. Whites resisted selling houses to Blacks. Even if a Black family did move in, they were either harassed or the whole neighborhood would sell their property to move away. Thats why u see majority of Blacks living in cities and overpowering majority of whites concentrated in suburbs and rural area.
Your current President's property firms are notorious for discriminating against people of color(His father was more heavily engaged in it)
Certainly people were moving out of the cities after WW2 but at that time the White flight wasn’t because of black people in cities. It was due to a rise in incomes.
While city housing units started being built in the late 1930’s it really didn’t hit its stride until the 1960’s because of the war on poverty. The government started moving the poor from the countryside into newly built dense housing in the cities (hmm this sounds very familiar). Unfortunately this increased the crime rate in cities (organized gangs preying on people) and scared even more people away.
Today many cities have sections of poor people living in those same dense housing areas (and their surrounding neighborhoods) where nobody wants to now live or even venture into.
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