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Burlington Self-Survey on Human Relations: Final report, 1950

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"Most Negroes prefer to live among their own people I have experienced very little desire on the part of the local Negroes to even want to buy or rent in strictly White neighborhoods. All Iowa Real Estate Brokers should abide by the Real Estate Primer..........When a broker has a prospect,  ready, willing and able to buy, he must inform his client as to the name of the prospective buyer. That's the place where most discrimina tion is made. Is the seller will sell to a Negro, that's another thing. Nevertheless. he has a lot to say as to who might not but his home."


"A low cost financing plan in any community would certainly aid in assisting people in this group to help themselves, laying out a part of each city to provide better housing for these people. They have a right to improve their living conditions and will definitely feel more at ease with their own race."


"Work out a plan to use a certain section of the city for colored families; build moderate-priced, substantial, medium-sized houses to be sold on monthly payment, contracts to deserving families. Require certain standards of care sanitation and upkeep of the properties so that buyers will have a pride in ownership and feel it a privilege to live in such an area."


"Negroes as a whole are very undependable."


"...We do business with negroes when there is available housing in their own district or has been occupied previously by colored. It has been our experience that there is hostility on the part of buyers and sellers introducing negroes into white neighborhoods. In actual practice, the value of property is lowered by the presence of colored in white areas."

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84 "Most Negroes prefer to live among their own people I have experienced very little desire on the part of the local Negroes to even want to buy or rent in strictly White neighborhoods. All Iowa Real Estate Brokers should abide by the Real Estate Primer..........When a broker has a prospect, ready, willing and able to buy, he must inform his client as to the name of the prospective buyer. That's the place where most discrimina tion is made. Is the seller will sell to a Negro, that's another thing. Nevertheless. he has a lot to say as to who might not but his home." "A low cost financing plan in any community would certainly aid in assisting people in this group to help themselves, laying out a part of each city to provide better housing for these people. They have a right to improve their living conditions and will definitely feel more at ease with their own race." "Work out a plan to use a certain section of the city for colored families; build moderate-priced, substantial, medium-sized houses to be sold on monthly payment, contracts to deserving families. Require certain standards of care sanitation and upkeep of the properties so that buyers will have a pride in ownership and feel it a privilege to live in such an area." "Negroes as a whole are very undependable." "...We do business with negroes when there is available housing in their own district or has been occupied previously by colored. It has been our experience that there is hostility on the part of buyers and sellers introducing negroes into white neighborhoods. In actual practice, the value of property is lowered by the presence of colored in white areas."