Action Series Affordable Housing
Action Series Affordable Housing
Host Sanford Unger goes to a reporter in Fairfax Country (via video screen/satellite) speaking with a Caucasian, middle aged male wearing a suit, audience in background. Man identified as an urban planner, discusses the persistent myth that single-family houses are the only true housing in the "American Dream." Policy should support a diverse range of housing.
Action Series Affordable Housing
Sanford Unger goes to the District of Columbia area (via video satellite feed) where an African American female reporter with young male African American audience member discusses trying to buy a home in D.C. (audience in BG); family income too high to qualify for most assistance programs, not high enough to hack private financing costs. D.C. councilwoman Charlene Drew Larvis says city has instituted moderate income programs for down-payment assistance. Lloyd Smth, Executive Director Marshall Heights Community Development Corp., discusses pursuing co-ops, rentals, but it's his group's policy that HOME OWNERSHIP for all who want it should be the ultimate goal. Description of a jumble of acronym-named assistance programs.
Action Series Affordable Housing
UNGER moderating discussion. Karen Kollias, Vice President of the American Security Bank, agrees with broadening diversity of types of housing supported. UNGER says that in this case, many people are being told that they must forgo the "American Dream" that others already have. Is that fair? William L. Berry, Chairman of William L. Berry and Co. Inc., says that zoning laws demand diverse housing stock and economic concerns dictate that single-family houses will be expensive.
Action Series Affordable Housing
(Via video satellite feed) African American reporter with young Hispanic woman in the audience, discusses being caught between qualifying for down payment assistance and being able to afford the payment outright. Panelist discussion by Charlene Drew Larvis, Jacqueline H. Rogers (Secretary of the Maryland Department of Housing and Community Development), James W. Rouse (Chairman of The Enterprise Foundation)on middle-income housing problems.
Action Series Affordable Housing
Sanford Unger sends it back to the video satellite feed from D.C. where African American reporter allows a Caucasian woman in the audience to comment. She delivers statistics about the huge numbers of renters in D.C. who couldn't afford even decent housing, urges discussion of the problems of renters. UNGER - "is there conflict between interests of middle-class who want to own homes and poor renters?" A poll for viewers.
Action Series Affordable Housing
UNGER brings up the upcoming March on Washington to protest cuts in housing assistance by Federal Gov't. He notes the historical role of the federal government as provider of assistance post-WWII. Exterior of offices of DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT.
Action Series Affordable Housing
Archival footage of city street with small wood row houses during GREAT DEPRESSION. Caucasian man walking. Caucasian children playing in street. Shot of a Caucasian woman throwing bathwater into street. Shot of Caucasian children climbing steps of a tenement. Shot of U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR) in Oval Office signing a bill. VO - summary of New Deal housing reforms. FEDERAL HOUSING ADMINISTRATION building. Shots of FHA financed small house, with FHA sign in yard. Shots of PUBLIC HOUSING units, moderate-sized row houses, under construction.
Action Series Affordable Housing
Shot of WWII VETERANS on NAVY SHIP decks, waving, smoking, several with casts on arms. Shot of large crowd of returning veterans (mostly Caucasian) on deck of ship in NEW YORK HARBOR.
Action Series Affordable Housing
B/W still of city street, dilapidated brick apartment buildings, many African-American residents, children and adult men in street. VO -- by late 1950s, public housing becomes associated with low-income and minority populations. Construction worker carrying long 2x4 on site of suburban house construction. Shot of BULLDOZERS on site. Description of 1970s federal policies to encourage private construction of low-income housing. Shot of RONALD REAGAN at podium in White House garden, delivering unheard speech. Shot of U.S. President Ronald Reagan speaking outdoors. Shot of a public law document as it relates to housing. Shot of Capitol Hill. Shot of condominiums/apartments buildings. Woodbury Park sign.
Action Series Affordable Housing
UNGER in studio and asks about the danger subsidized housing reverting back to market rates. Jacqueline H. Rogers and Karen Kollias, Thomas M. Davis III (Fairfax Board of Supervisors) give their answers. The discussion also includes the impact of FEDERAL FUNDING CUTS. Sanford Unger sends the discussion to Fairfax audience via video satellite feed where a reporter gives the floor to a Caucasian woman. H.U.D. representative, Alfred A. DelliBovi, talks favorably about VOUCHERS for the private market instead of subsidies.
Action Series Affordable Housing
Audience members (via video satellite feed) offer opinions on vouchers issue. A very heated exchange between one Caucasian man in audience and the H.U.D. representative, Alfred A. DelliBovi. Disagreement between D.C. Councilwoman, Charlene Drew Larvis, and H.U.D. representative, Alfred A. DelliBovi, over local-federal responsibility. Discussion of activities by nonprofits led by Lloyd Smith.
Action Series Affordable Housing
Description of SECTION 8 program, audience member (African American woman) in (via video satellite feed) argues that vouchers don't help if the available pool of housing is too small. H.U.D. representative Alfred A. DelliBovi responds. Jacqueline H. Rogers states the issues facing the voucher program now. Thomas Davis III agrees there is an issue. Unger goes to another audience member (African American woman) to bring about the issue of the high proportion of income paid as rent by the very poor. James W. Roues leads that discussion and brings up the REHABILITATION of existing housing stock. Alfred A. DelliBovi, Jacqueline H. Rogers, and Lloyd Smith dominate that discussion.