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What is oneway suburbanization helped this

country? What is one way suburbanization hurt
this country.

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After WWII urban renewal programs became popular in the untied states, which were experimental federal policies which were created to help inner American cities which had suffered very badly during interwar and post war deindustrialization periods. While urban renewal was a good thing in some areas, it created a lot in problems in others, by destroying functional lower-class neighborhoods occupied by minorities.

Detroit serves as a good example of urban renewal programs implemented that have caused harm on the community. Urban renewal in Detroit has introduced displacement, segregation, deindustrialization, and suburbanization which disproportionately affecting African American urban neighborhoods. There was a spark around this time in America in the 30's and 40s when Robert Moses plans for urban renewal in Manhattan, New York became very admired with his super blocks, gardens, neat parking structures and promotion of good residential life.

The national housing act of 1934 created the federal housing administration which guaranteed loans to white people while reducing the risk for lending institutions, which helped the economy and u.s citizens get back into housing after the great depression. But they would not guarantee loans to black people, and thus they were forced to live in neighborhoods in inner cities. But the policies of the housing act ultimately resulted in white flight of the city and mass suburbanization, which was made possible by the automobile.

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