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Section 1: Texts

Core

  • Unit Reader
    • “Average Sales Price of Houses Sold for the United States” from 1963–2018, US Census Bureau and US Department of Housing and Urban Development, Public Domain, 2018
    • “Blacks and Hispanics Face Extra Challenges in Getting Home Loans,” Pew Research Center, Public Domain, 2017
    • Chapter 5: “Detached Houses: The Dream of Home Ownership,” excerpt from The American Dream: A Short History of an Idea that Shaped a Nation, Jim Cullen, Oxford University Press, 2003
    • “Home Not-So-Sweet Home,” Paul Krugman, The New York Times Company, 2008
    • “Home is...,” Various, Odell Education, 2020
    • “Home, Sweet Home,” John Howard Payne, Public Domain, 1823
    • “The Dark Side of Suburbia,” Kimberly Kutz Elliott, Khan Academy, 2015
    • “The Growth of Suburbia,” Kimberly Kutz Elliott, Khan Academy, 2015
    • “Then vs. Now: Changes in Key Metrics since the First State of the Nation’s Housing Report Was Released in 1988,” Harvard Joint Studies for Housing Studies, Harvard Joint Studies for Housing Studies, 2018
    • “Why Owning a Home Is the American Dream,” Anthony Depalma, The New York Times Company, 1988
  • Digital Access
    • “Federal Housing Administration (FHA),” Marie Justine Fritz, Encyclopædia Britannica
    • “Here’s How the US Housing Market Has Been Impacted by the Crash,” Jonathan Garber, Trulia (reprinted at businessinsider.com), 2016
    • “Home Sweet Home. Still.,” Pew Research Center, Pew Research Center, 2011
    • “National Housing Act 1935,” Federal Housing Administration, YouTube, 1935
    • “The Rise of Suburban Areas during 1950s,” AP US History Resources, YouTube
    • “The Rise of Suburbs,” CitiesX, YouTube, 2018
    • “This Is Home,” Off/Page Project, YouTube, 2014

Optional

  • Digital Access
    • “Cary Grant and Myrna Loy Design Their Dream Home,” H.C. Potter, RKO Radio Pictures, 1948
    • Sections 1–6 from “How Mortgages Work,” Lee Ann Obringer and Dave Roos, HowStuffWorks, 2002
    • “Subprime Mortgage Crisis,” John V. Duca, Federal Reserve History, 2013
    • “The Crisis of Credit Visualized,” Jonathon Jarvis, YouTube, 2011
    • “There’s No Place Like Home — The Wizard of Oz (8/8),” Victor Fleming, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1939
    • “Witness the Impact of the Global Financial Crisis of 2007–08,” Encyclopædia Britannica, Encyclopædia Britannica, 2014