What is Levittown and what is its significance?
Was Levittown an exception or the norm? Why? • What is ‘redlining’ and how did the term originate? What are the consequences of redlining on housing patterns? What attitudes and beliefs might such practices reinforce? • How much of the $120 billion in home loans underwritten between 1934 and 1962 went to non-whites? Why? What effect did that have on such families? • Explain the terms “white flight,” “blockbusting” and racial “steering.” Why do property values decline when a neighborhood changes from white to nonwhite? How are the reasons given by the film different from what you’ve heard or what people commonly believe? • Who benefits from segregated housing? Who doesn’t? Why are all-white communities and all-minority communities not equal? • A typical (median) white family has a net worth how many times that of a typical African American family? Why? If we do nothing to address the gap, will it go away on its own or continue to grow? Why? • What happens to measures of racial dispariti
