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Speaker 1: Aero dot net. It's more than just a podcast. It

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is a collection of podcasts, twenty of them so far,

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because I believe in the power of choice. And speaking

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of the choice, one of those podcasts is called The Choice.

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Sure every day we start off with a prayer. Everybody

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needs a prayer, right, If not, okay, well maybe one

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day you will. And then we get into things that

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really do affect our lifestyle. It is a choice. We

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get one of those every single day, The Choice on

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Aero dot net, Roe dot net. Enjoy your exploration. Heyes

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me again, that guy that likes to ask questions. I

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mean the fun begins when you start researching for answers, right,

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such as I watch a lot of black and white

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television shows studying those who've been labeled the masters of

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the art. You can't help but take note of the

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limited number of single women who own homes on these

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black and white shows. Was it a difficult task pre

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nineteen seventy four plus if you were a single woman,

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what measures did you have to go through to become

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a home owner? My name is Arrow. I'm a daily writer,

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a silent wolf. That means I stand on the sidelines

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and do nothing but watch, listen, study, then activate. I

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happen to call it the daily mess. It is a

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chronological walk through an everyday world. Yeah, it's by morning pages.

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As a receiver of thoughts and ideas, we as people

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tend to throw things to the side because we think

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we're going to deal with it later on. Well, when

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a subject arrives inside of me, I know it's time

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to dig in. It's still keeping that daily journal, but

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by doing the research, the picture becomes clearer. This is

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the daily mess. How difficult was it for single women

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to buy their own home pre let's say, nineteen fifty

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nine to nineteen sixty five. Why this has never been

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brought up shocks the hell out of me. Women owning

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homes was extremely difficult because of structure, not personal. Single

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women felt like that they were swimming against a strong current.

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Legal permission existed any woman owning any property was finally

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passed into law in the eighteen hundreds. Banks were known

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for saying no to women. They required male co signers,

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a father, a brother, or even an ex husband. Before

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the nineteen sixties, women were seen as a credit risk.

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Number one reason why, well, they might get married and

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have children for the love of God. Ownership wasn't illegal,

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it was just discouraged, blocked, and delayed. So can you

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say a credit discrimination? There were no laws laws that

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said you couldn't do this to people. A woman's income

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was often discounted or ignored. Even professional women were told

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their jobs they're only temporary. The Equal Credit Opportunity Act

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didn't arrive until nineteen seventy four, but in my heart,

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that's about two hundred and fifty years too late. Coming

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up next, what did the women do to get around

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this obstacle? Hey, thanks for coming back to the daily mess?

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How difficult was it for single ladies to own homes

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pre oh, let's say nineteen seventy four. Credit wasn't easily

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handed out. In fact, income realities were made worse. Women

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made sixty percent less than their male counterparts. The well

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paying jobs were closed off to women. If you were

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a single woman seeking a workplace promotion, it just wasn't

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available to you. There really were workplaces that actually expected

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or required women that were married to quit what the

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social pressure worked against single women? Some neighborhoods had to

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fit when they heard that a single woman was going

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to own that house down the street. Real estate agents

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were told to steer women away from certain areas. The

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agent encouraged them to rent rather than buy. That's when

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we were pushed into condo living. It's been looked upon

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as being a soft discrimination. The women who did buy

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their own homes were usually older widows, divorced women, and

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women who wanted to flip that house. In other words,

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buy it, fix it up, and then sell that monkey.

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The system at that time period pretty much said that women,

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you don't need to own your own home. Humph, whew,

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how do you react? I'm Errol and that's the daily mess.