Speaker 1: Aero dot net. It's more than just a podcast. It
is a collection of podcasts, twenty of them so far,
because I believe in the power of choice. And speaking
of the choice, one of those podcasts is called The Choice.
Sure every day we start off with a prayer. Everybody
needs a prayer, right, If not, okay, well maybe one
day you will. And then we get into things that
really do affect our lifestyle. It is a choice. We
get one of those every single day, The Choice on
Aero dot net, Roe dot net. Enjoy your exploration. Heyes
me again, that guy that likes to ask questions. I
mean the fun begins when you start researching for answers, right,
such as I watch a lot of black and white
television shows studying those who've been labeled the masters of
the art. You can't help but take note of the
limited number of single women who own homes on these
black and white shows. Was it a difficult task pre
nineteen seventy four plus if you were a single woman,
what measures did you have to go through to become
a home owner? My name is Arrow. I'm a daily writer,
a silent wolf. That means I stand on the sidelines
and do nothing but watch, listen, study, then activate. I
happen to call it the daily mess. It is a
chronological walk through an everyday world. Yeah, it's by morning pages.
As a receiver of thoughts and ideas, we as people
tend to throw things to the side because we think
we're going to deal with it later on. Well, when
a subject arrives inside of me, I know it's time
to dig in. It's still keeping that daily journal, but
by doing the research, the picture becomes clearer. This is
the daily mess. How difficult was it for single women
to buy their own home pre let's say, nineteen fifty
nine to nineteen sixty five. Why this has never been
brought up shocks the hell out of me. Women owning
homes was extremely difficult because of structure, not personal. Single
women felt like that they were swimming against a strong current.
Legal permission existed any woman owning any property was finally
passed into law in the eighteen hundreds. Banks were known
for saying no to women. They required male co signers,
a father, a brother, or even an ex husband. Before
the nineteen sixties, women were seen as a credit risk.
Number one reason why, well, they might get married and
have children for the love of God. Ownership wasn't illegal,
it was just discouraged, blocked, and delayed. So can you
say a credit discrimination? There were no laws laws that
said you couldn't do this to people. A woman's income
was often discounted or ignored. Even professional women were told
their jobs they're only temporary. The Equal Credit Opportunity Act
didn't arrive until nineteen seventy four, but in my heart,
that's about two hundred and fifty years too late. Coming
up next, what did the women do to get around
this obstacle? Hey, thanks for coming back to the daily mess?
How difficult was it for single ladies to own homes
pre oh, let's say nineteen seventy four. Credit wasn't easily
handed out. In fact, income realities were made worse. Women
made sixty percent less than their male counterparts. The well
paying jobs were closed off to women. If you were
a single woman seeking a workplace promotion, it just wasn't
available to you. There really were workplaces that actually expected
or required women that were married to quit what the
social pressure worked against single women? Some neighborhoods had to
fit when they heard that a single woman was going
to own that house down the street. Real estate agents
were told to steer women away from certain areas. The
agent encouraged them to rent rather than buy. That's when
we were pushed into condo living. It's been looked upon
as being a soft discrimination. The women who did buy
their own homes were usually older widows, divorced women, and
women who wanted to flip that house. In other words,
buy it, fix it up, and then sell that monkey.
The system at that time period pretty much said that women,
you don't need to own your own home. Humph, whew,
how do you react? I'm Errol and that's the daily mess.