Department of Housing and Urban Development

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• SOURCE: The Nation
  8/25/2020
  

  The Burning House: How Federal Housing Programs Failed Black America (Review)

  by Marcia Chatelain

  "As Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor shows in Race for Profit, we are also only beginning to reckon with the complex network of bankers, real estate agents, and federal agencies that used the rhetoric of equality to obscure a set of race-to-the-bottom schemes that sought to extract as much wealth as possible from poor Black Americans."