In working class districts, you had several families living together in the one house, and it was very difficult to get a house, because the politicians who controlled housing were doing so in a very discriminatory fashion.
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Home wasn't so much a house as people, family.
It is tough that a lot of kids have single-family homes.
No architect troubled to design houses that suited people who were to live in them, because that would have meant building a whole range of different houses. It was far cheaper and, above all, timesaving to make them identical.
While housing discrimination and segregation in 2005 still affect millions of people, that's not the way it has to be. Some things can change and should.
Ours was not a political household, when I was growing up.
Family makes a house a home.
Communities need to feel that they can accommodate people. Rather than feeling that it's not possible to integrate and that the stress and strain on housing and public services is too great.
I was a lower middle-class kid. My family had no money. There was no room in our small house where there were already four kids, including myself, living.
My family was a poor farming family, and we lived under absolute segregation.
The biggest culprits in the housing fiasco came from the private sector, and more specifically from a mortgage industry that was out of control.
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