Posts Tagged ‘redlining’

A History of Housing Inequality

February 9, 2023

A brief video history of race-based US housing inequality by Devin Hance of Axios, presented by Felix Salmon.

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US cities were segregated by design.

June 4, 2020

The 20th Century segregation of America’s cities was not a natural event, explains Richard Rothstein. Unconstitutional schemes and policies ruined cities and left minority residents to languish. We still live with the consequences.

More:

The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How our Government Segregated America, Richard Rothstein, 2017.

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