The City: A Global History
by Joel Kotkin · 1 Jan 2005
of his own castle. Europeans who come here are delighted by our suburbs. Not to live in an apartment! It is a universal aspiration to own your own home.24 ARGENTINA AND AUSTRALIA This “universal aspiration” emerged early in former colonial cities in Argentina and Australia. Urbanites in these land-rich countries were quick
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by Designing The Mind and Ryan A Bush · 10 Jan 2021
The Decoys to Well-Being The goals that you have set for yourself may be ones sold to you by the larger culture - ‘Make money! Own your own home! Look great!’ - and while there may be nothing wrong with striving for those things, they mask the pursuits more likely to deliver true and lasting
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by Tom Standage · 16 Aug 2021 · 290pp · 85,847 words
car to do almost anything, but that is widely considered a price worth paying for a bit more space and privacy, and the opportunity to own your own home. Millions of suburban dwellers have voted with their feet—or, it is more accurate to say, with their cars. 8 Car Culture The car has
The Human City: Urbanism for the Rest of Us
by Joel Kotkin · 11 Apr 2016 · 565pp · 122,605 words
defaulted on their mortgages.”75 A 2013 survey by the University of Connecticut found that 76 percent of those polled believe that being able to own your own home is necessary to be considered middle class.76 THE GLOBALIZATION OF DISPERSION Suburbanization is now a global phenomenon. In Tokyo, like other large cities, the
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who come here are delighted by our suburbs, even by the worst sprawl. Not to live in an apartment! It is a universal aspiration to own your own home.110 Contini, for one, would not have been surprised that the fastest growth in immigrant populations now overwhelmingly takes place in the suburbs; between 2000
99%: Mass Impoverishment and How We Can End It
by Mark Thomas · 7 Aug 2019 · 286pp · 79,305 words
mental health problems, there’s too often not enough help to hand. If you’re young, you’ll find it harder than ever before to own your own home. Since 2007, despite the Global Financial Crisis, real GDP per capita has grown a little – UK society as a whole is a little richer than
Investment: A History
by Norton Reamer and Jesse Downing · 19 Feb 2016
society and that growing this group enhances the social stability and economic aspirations of citizens. As early as 1918, the Department of Labor undertook an “Own Your Own Home” campaign, and in public-private partnership thousands of Better Homes committees promoted the advantages of home ownership in the 1920s.1 However, the government was
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, 235–36, 237 Oregon Investment Council, 296 orphans’ funds (Jianjiao-ku), 29 Ottoman Empire, 52, 55 ousiai (estates), 21 Over the Counter Bulletin Board, 180 “Own Your Own Home” campaign, 321 “Own Your Share of American Business” campaign, 92 Packard Motor Car Company, 111 pairs trading, 267 Pajcin, David, 187–90 Panama Canal, 90
Walk Away
by Douglas E. French · 1 Mar 2011 · 93pp · 24,584 words
what are currently being filed. Government has built a huge stake in the housing market since before the Great Depression, starting with Herbert Hoover’s “Own Your Own Home” initiative. Government has standardized suburban living through its mortgage guarantee guidelines. Government has provided the secondary markets to make 30-year mortgages and the securitization
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of the richest rented—because they had better places to invest than in the volatile housing market.” But after WWI, the federal government launched an “Own Your Own Home” campaign with the objective being to “defeat radical protest and restore political stability by encouraging urban workers to become homeowners,” Weiss writes. In his book
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State and the Suburban Home Ideal.” At Hoover’s direction the federal government threw its weight behind four organizations to promote home ownership: the commercial “Own Your Own Home Campaign” and Home Modernization Bureau, the nonprofit Better Homes in America Movement, and the professional Architect’s Small House Service Bureau. This concentrated effort served
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invasion by foreign influences.” —Hutchinson The ideal American home in suburbia housed a working husband, housekeeping mother and a couple of kids. The government’s “Own Your Own Homes” campaign had targeted women with a letter campaign to women’s groups. Rental apartment living was denigrated in the government’s literature as being overcrowded
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law and the fiduciary duties, 8 New Deal, 23 New York Times, iv, 16, 51 O Obama, Barack Hussein, 14 OFHEO, 32 Otis, James, iii Own Your Own Home, 4, 19, 20 P Past Due, 36 Paulson Jr., Henry M., 10 Peach, Richard W., 36 Phoenix, 3, 51 PIMCO, 52, 53 Pines, Michael, 16
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by Kit Wharton · 9 Feb 2017
bed, staring at her, firing questions. They haven’t introduced themselves. She sits there, naked from the waist up, covered in wires, terrified. —Do you own your own home? —Do you get out much? —Do you see much of your friends? —Do you do your own shopping? Our lady is now confused and baffled
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by Fredrik Deboer · 3 Aug 2020 · 236pp · 77,546 words
growth driving increased revenues for business—life without a college education was mostly fine. It was possible in those days to forgo college and still own your own home, get a new car every few years, raise a family, and put kids through college. Today, that looks like an increasingly distant past. The economic
Affluenza: When Too Much Is Never Enough
by Clive Hamilton and Richard Denniss · 31 May 2005
is. The defenders of consumerism—the advertisers and the neoliberal commentators, think-tankers and politicians—repeat the comforting stories. It’s good to aspire to own your own home, surround yourself with nice things, look after the needs of your children, and save for your retirement. Yes, we are lucky that in a 17
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