Federal Housing Administration

Levittown Opens as America's First Suburb With Explicit Whites-Only Policy

| Importance: 8/10

Levittown, regarded as America’s first modern planned suburb, opens on Long Island to accommodate returning World War II veterans with “Clause 25” in housing agreements explicitly forbidding homes “from being used or occupied by any person other than members of the Caucasian …

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FHA Underwriting Manual Formalizes Racial Covenants, Physical Segregation

| Importance: 8/10

The Federal Housing Administration publishes its Underwriting Manual, which establishes formal mortgage lending requirements that institutionalize racism and segregation within the housing industry. The manual emphasizes the negative impact of “infiltration of inharmonious racial groups” …

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Federal Housing Administration Created, Institutionalizes Racial Segregation

| Importance: 9/10

The National Housing Act creates the Federal Housing Administration, which immediately implements systematic racial discrimination through mortgage underwriting guidelines. From its first operations in 1934, FHA staff conclude that no loan could be economically sound if the property was located in a …

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