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FHA mortgage guarantees

FHA mortgage guarantees and other postwar housing subsidies helped builders like Fred Trump to scale from single homes to large middle‑class apartment complexes.

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How did Fred Trump’s use of New Deal housing programs shape the Trump Organization’s growth?

Fred Trump built the foundation of the Trump Organization by leaning heavily on federally backed housing programs—using FHA insurance, postwar slum‑clearance funds and other New Deal–era mechanisms to...

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How did the ancestries of Trump's grandparents influence his family's businesses and culture?

The Trump grandparents—paternal Friedrich (Frederick) Trump of Kallstadt, Germany, and maternal Mary Anne MacLeod of the Scottish Hebrides—left tangible legacies that shaped the family’s business traj...