Eliminate Rent Controls. With higher prices being allowed in NYC the laws of supply and demand will have a freer reign and you'll see more improvement of buildings and more new buildings being built since there's more return for property owners. The urban poor will be pushed from the city...
As for numbers even with the immigration restrictions there were 100,000 Indians in Kenya and 50,000 of them were born outside of Kenya. By independence in '62 the population was 180,000, but immigration had dropped off because of harassment by the local black population and there was a reversal...
South Africa was the only dominion to vote against the 1921 Conference resolution, precisely because they thought it would have future implications towards blacks.
The POD that I'm using is basically that the decision of the 1921 Imperial Conference is upheld in practice. This basically means that Indians already within the borders of a dominion/colony/whatever would have the franchise. According to this decision, each state could decide their own...
In the 1920's there was a huge debate around the issue of Indians in Kenya. There were around 25,000 Indians in the colony, greatly outnumbering the white settlers (about 12,000), but they were politically marginalized. But in 1921 there was an Imperial conference that said that Indians were an...
Al-Queda is based around the idea of the jihad in the "near country," to remove non-islamic influences (Jahiliyyah). Because of a very narrow, strict interpretation of the Koran, they view any deviation as a corruption of Islam and any non-islamic influence as a corruption to be destroyed. (See...
Austria won't be around long after a war ending in 1917. The Germans were absolutely fed up with the Austrians during the First World War and were considering annexing the German speaking regions. At the budget renegotiation in 1917 in A-H, the Germans are going to press the Austrians to let it go.