Large suburban tract homes qualified for the secondary market, but the frugal house with the small attached shop didn’t. Anyone who wanted a resilient housing style, one dating back to the streets of ancient Pompeii and beyond, would essentially need to pay cash, a financial handicap that made such investments largely unfeasible. Any neighborhoods deemed “at risk” also didn’t qualify for government support, the left hand of government policy destroying urban land values while the right hand kept people trapped there – at this point, largely economically stressed minority populations – from
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