Talk:Federal Housing Administration

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[edit] Broken links

The links are broken.--Jerryseinfeld 00:01, 1 Jan 2005 (UTC) The current links to "The FHA" actually point to a private, for-profit entity!

The article neglects to mention the FHA's practice of by refusing loans to people living in "declining" neighboorhoods. This "qualification" actually disqualified every African American from receiving loans. Meanwhile, 100 billion dollars were transfered to whites, thus enabling the creation of a white middle class.

Why does someone keep changing the link from FHA's website to a private sector company's website? User:vnnc_vnnc

[edit] removal of Rethinking the COLOR Line Statement

I removed the following text, which was placed in the middle of the see also/links area, not in the actual article text.

Some of the most long term damaging effects of the American gap between resources available to whites, and those available to "aggrieved racial communities", have come from the FHA, by "Codified" policies of the FHA promoting racial discrimination. Following World War II, the FHA along with other private investors started withdrawing funds from inner-city neighborhoods, and funding mainly the growth and development of white, segregated, suburbs. FHA appraisers continually denied fedarally supported funds to Boyle Heights, in Los Angeles, simply because it was a racially mixed "melting pot area literally combed with diverse and subversive racial elements."

Rethinking the COLOR Line, 3rd Edition. Gallagher.

If this statement refelects a legitimite concern expressed with the agency/programs then it should be cleaned up to have a NPOV, and re-added in the proper section. kenj0418 17:16, 1 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] More on the race question

For anyone interested in the racial controversy, see Kenneth Jackson, Crabgrass Frontier or one of several other informative histories (Douglass Massey and Nancy Denton, etc.). The original entry here for FHA is misleading, at best! Historians and policy analysts who work on this subject disagree very strongly with the general claims made in the main entry, above.