Sorry it cut me off. Was going to say in first years after Fair Housing Act?, HUD under Secretary Romney was actually enforcing non-discrimination --a brief interlude. Otherwise most HUD 207 projects were white-only except Melvin Gardens in Catonsville built for Black occupancy. Lots of detail on multifamily development from 1970 US Civil Righrs Comm'n hearing on Suburban Development in Baltimore. Includes transcripts of testimony of prominent developers, HUD and local officials, etc as well as staff research reports. Keep digging!
Thank you, and I appreciate you adding this; I wish I put that together previously. I do know that there was a de-facto desegregation agreement among a bunch of local apartment operators that started in 1965 after the Horizon House KKK/CORE picketing. In a pre-fair housing act environment, I wonder how this private action impacted developers' decisionmaking, if at all.
Excellent piece! Dont underestimate the liklihood that some of the developers of luxury high rises in Baltimore during this period declined to use HUD 207 mortgage insurance in order to evade "open housing" and rent only to whites. FHA was notorious for financing support to segregated single & muktifamily projects. But in tht four hil George Romney was HUD Secretary, HUD was enforcing the Fair This history of muktifamily development
Sorry it cut me off. Was going to say in first years after Fair Housing Act?, HUD under Secretary Romney was actually enforcing non-discrimination --a brief interlude. Otherwise most HUD 207 projects were white-only except Melvin Gardens in Catonsville built for Black occupancy. Lots of detail on multifamily development from 1970 US Civil Righrs Comm'n hearing on Suburban Development in Baltimore. Includes transcripts of testimony of prominent developers, HUD and local officials, etc as well as staff research reports. Keep digging!
Thank you, and I appreciate you adding this; I wish I put that together previously. I do know that there was a de-facto desegregation agreement among a bunch of local apartment operators that started in 1965 after the Horizon House KKK/CORE picketing. In a pre-fair housing act environment, I wonder how this private action impacted developers' decisionmaking, if at all.
Excellent piece! Dont underestimate the liklihood that some of the developers of luxury high rises in Baltimore during this period declined to use HUD 207 mortgage insurance in order to evade "open housing" and rent only to whites. FHA was notorious for financing support to segregated single & muktifamily projects. But in tht four hil George Romney was HUD Secretary, HUD was enforcing the Fair This history of muktifamily development