City Segregation
What is the most segregated large city in the USA?
Detroit
What % of loans from the FHA between 1934 and 1962 went to white people?
98%
Atherton excluded what type of housing from all of their neighborhoods? Single-family, multi-family, apartments.
Multi-family housing
What is the clause inserted into property deeds that prevent people who are non White from buying the home?
Racial Covenant
What is the oldest building at SJSU?
Tower Hall built in 1910
Where does San Jose rank in the list of segregated large cities in the USA?
72
A red color community meant undesirable. What color community meant desirable?
Green
In 2018 the US had a housing shortage of 2.5 million. What was the shortage in 2020?
3.8 million
What is the tactic of convincing homeowners to sell their property at a low price by creating fear that minorities are moving into the neighborhood?
Blockbusting
Who are the two men memorialized in the Victory Salute Statue at SJSU?
Tommie Smith & John Carlos
What is the least segregated large city in California?
FDR started an agency called H.O.L.C. in the midst of the Great Depression. What does H.O.L.C. stand for?
Home Owners Loan Corporation
In the 1980s, starter homes made up 40% of all homes built. What is the % of starter homes built today?
About 7%
Who is the white real estate developer who is known as the father of surburbia?
William Levitt
What ice cream factory and headquarters is located in Burlingame, California?
It's-It Ice Cream
Name the top 5 most segregated large cities in the USA.
Detroit, MI
Newark, NJ
Hialeah, FL
Milwaukee, WI
Chicago, IL
Which president signed The Fair Housing Act into law?
Lyndon B. Johnson
What % of residential land in the Bay Area is zoned for single-family housing only?
82%
Who is the WW2 veteran who helped build Levittown, but wasn't allowed to live there because he was black?
Robert Mereday
What sandwich shop was bought by a SJSU student in 1971 and moved from Marquette, Michigan to San Jose, California?
Togo's
Put these cities in order from most segregated to least segregated. San Francisco, Sacramento, San Jose, & San Diego.
44. San Diego
71. Sacramento
72. San Jose
73. San Francisco
In what year did the federal government pass The Fair Housing Act which made redlining illegal?
1968
Which San Jose neighborhood opposed building affordable housing for teachers who teach in the neighborhood?
Leland, Bret Harte, or Almaden Valley
Who is the white journalist whose husband was sentenced to 15 years in prison because they resold a home to a black war veteran?
Anne Braden
Which of these cities is the oldest in California?
San Diego, Monterey, San Jose, or Sacramento
San Diego (1769)
Monterey (1770)
San Jose (1777)
Sacramento (1849)