housing discrimination

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  5/10/2023
  

  Washington State Law to Offer Low-Interest Home Loans to Redress Decades of Discriminatory Housing

  by James Gregory

  Specific practices by private lenders and public authorities have created and perpetuated disparities in homeownership and wealth through real estate. Guided by researchers, Washington State is attempting to compensate for that harm.

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• SOURCE: Louisville Courier-Journal
  12/12/2022
  

  Moving To Louisville Brought Me Face to Face with the Racist History of Home Prices

  by Jemar Tisby

  Neither historical patterns nor contemporary socioeconomic differences can explain why Black Louisvilleans' homes are valued so much lower than whites'. 

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• SOURCE: CNN
  8/24/2022
  

  How "Sales Comps" Built Racism Into the Housing Market

  by Elizabeth Korver-Glenn

  The recent ordeal of a Johns Hopkins historian whose house was appraised for more money when he removed pictures of himself and his Black family points to a key finding: the use of sales comparisons to appraise homes enshrines racism in the market. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  8/18/2022
  

  Leading Expert on Housing Discrimination Suing Appraisers for Discrimination

  “We were clearly aware of appraisal discrimination,” said Dr. Nathan Connolly, 44. “But to be told in so many words that our presence and the life we’ve built in our home brings the property value down? It’s an absolute gut punch.”

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• 5/1/2022
  

  High Crimes and Lingering Consequences: How Land Sale Contracts Looted Black Wealth and Gutted Chicago Communities

  by Tiff Beatty

  Chicago artist Tonika Lewis Johnson is creating public installations documenting properties where Black residents were subjected to predatory contract home sales, and connecting the past to the present struggles of the city's south and west sides.

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  2/7/2022
  

  The Racist Terrorism and Segregation Behind "Midwest Nice"

  by Aaron Kinard

  The Midwest has a long history of racial exclusion that today manifests in the worst black-white inequality in the nation. "Niceness" can't be allowed to conceal systemic racism. 

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  11/29/2021
  

  The Invention of America's Most Dangerous Idea

  by Gene Slater

  How did a right-wing conception of "freedom" rooted in the individual's absolute property rights supersede an idea of freedom based in social equality? Blame the real estate industry. 

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  11/15/2021
  

  How to Ensure a New Redlining Initiative Succeeds

  by Robert Henderson and Rebecca Marchiel

  Ensuring equity in mortgage lending requires understanding why the Community Reinvestment Act failed to achieve the same goal decades ago, through a better awareness of the ongoing problems in mortgage lending. 

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• SOURCE: NPR
  11/17/2021
  

  Unenforceable Racial Covenants are Still Part of Property Deeds Across America

  "I'd be surprised to find any city that did not have restrictive covenants," said LaDale Winling, a historian and expert on housing discrimination who teaches at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg.

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• SOURCE: Savannah Morning News
  8/16/2021
  

  The Odd Place of one Savannah Neighborhood in the History of Redlining

  by Todd Michney

  The history of the Cuyler-Brownville area shows that HOLC risk assessments and Federal lending practices were responsive to local banks' perception of lending risk and desire for profit, factors which resulted in the rarity of an African American community retaining a "green" rating. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  8/17/2021
  

  Redlining: What is It?

  "Though the maps were internal documents that were never made public by the federal government, their ramifications were obvious to Black homeowners who could not get home loans that were backed by government insurance programs."

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• SOURCE: Last Week Tonight
  7/26/2021
  

  Last Week Tonight with John Oliver Ties the History of Housing Discrimination to Reparations

  John Oliver breaks down the long history of housing discrimination in the U.S., the damage it’s done, and, crucially, what we can do about it.

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• SOURCE: The 74
  3/22/2021
  

  New Study: 5 Ways Racist 1930s Housing Policies Still Haunt Schools

  Past discriminatory housing policies have been determined to be a major factor in the black-white wealth gap. A new report has linked redlining to present-day inequalities in education. 

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• SOURCE: Vox
  1/26/2021
  

  The Mirage of the Black Middle Class

  by Anne Helen Petersen

  Economic policy debates center on restoring the security of the middle class, but this overlooks that high-earning Black Americans have and still face structural impediments to building wealth through homeownership. 

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• SOURCE: Black Perspectives
  2/4/20
  

  Historians Nathan Connolly and Beryl Satter Interviewed On Housing Discrimination in the Jim Crow US and The Case for Reparations

  Nathan Connolly is the Herbert Baxter Adams Associate Professor of History at Johns Hopkins University and Beryl Satter is Professor of History at Rutgers University.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  2/28/19
  

  Michael Cohen revealed Trump doesn’t understand America’s racist past

  by Elizabeth A. Herbin-Triant

  Ghettos exist because of housing discrimination.