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SOURCE: Edge Effects
4/15/2021
What 19th-Century Domestic Manuals Say about Housing as Infrastructure
by Leah Marie Becker
"We are only as safe as the person breathing the most polluted air or with the least access to stable housing."
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SOURCE: Minnesota Daily
3/22/2021
Minneapolis Homeowners Can Now Reject Racial Covenants On Their Deed
Racial restrictive covenants have been legally unenforceable since 1948 and illegal under the Fair Housing Act of 1968, but remain on the deeds of many older properties. A program in Minnesota allows homeowners to remove them.
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SOURCE: Black Perspectives
3/9/2021
The Roots of Racial and Spatial Inequality
by Kimberley S. Johnson
As part of the AAIHS's roundtable on Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor's "Race For Profit," urban studies scholar Kimberley Johnson looks at the ways that generations of housing policy enabled banks to write predatory loans to Black buyers, profiting first by high interest, then by foreclosure, while blaming outcomes on the individual irresponsibility of Black borrowers.
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SOURCE: Black Perspectives
3/3/2021
Online Roundtable: Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor’s ‘Race for Profit’
Black Perspectives, the blog of the African American Intellectual History Society, will sponsor a virtual roundtable on the award-winning "Race For Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership" with new essays being released beginning March 8.
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SOURCE: Fresno Bee
1/14/2021
How Decades of Housing Discrimination Hurts Fresno in the Pandemic
RetroReport produces a short documentary examining how longterm housing discrimination in Fresno, CA has contributed to unequal health and economic outcomes in the COVID pandemic.
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SOURCE: The Atlantic
1/2/2021
The Pandemic Disproved Urban Progressives’ Theory About Gentrification
by Jacob Ambinder
Anti-gentrification activists portray themselves as champions of the poor, but they generally represent a coalition of property owners who benefit from keeping the supply of a resource – housing – scarce. How can the political and economic incentives of land and housing be realigned?
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SOURCE: Gothamist
10/5/2020
Are Trump And Biden Fighting About Abolishing The Suburbs, Or Desegregating Them?
Beneath the rhetoric rests a genuine policy debate over the extent to which the federal government needs to push municipalities to undo segregation. This debate has been going on since 1968, when President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Fair Housing Act.
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SOURCE: New York Times
10/1/2020
With Evictions Looming, Cities Revisit a Housing Experiment From the ’70s (video)
by Retro Report
The looming evictions crisis is prompting housing policy experts to reconsider government programs that would enable the tenants of a building to secure loans to purchase their buildings cooperatively. A video from Retro Report explores how the battle to save the International Hotel in San Francisco for its low-income tenants prefigured today's policy debates.
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SOURCE: Bloomberg CityLab
9/21/2020
A Neighborhood’s Race Affects Home Values More Now Than in 1980
by Brentin Mock
The real estate industry has adopted appraisal standards in response to fair housing laws that are, on the surface, race-neutral. But they don't account for the ways that racism has lowered the sale value in diverse neighborhoods, and still penalize Black and Latino homeowners.
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SOURCE: Bloomberg CityLab
9/10/2020
History and Gentrification Clash in a Gilded Age Resort
A proposal to redevelop a section of Newport, Rhode Island far from the city's typical tourist destinations has generated an unlikely alliance of low-income residents who fear displacement and affluent historic preservation advocates.
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SOURCE: Made By History at The Washington Post
9/4/2020
The Depression-Era Lessons That Can Solve Today’s Evictions Crisis
by Anya Jabour
Social workers and researchers Edith Abbott and Sophonisba Breckinridge conducted an important study of evictions in Chicago during the Great Depression and advocated for federal support for a minimum standard of living including housing. The looming eviction crisis demands similar big thinking.
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SOURCE: Made By History at The Washington Post
9/8/2020
Covid-19 Has Exposed The Consequences Of Decades Of Bad Public Housing Policy
by Gillet Gardner Rosenblith
Poor and economically precarious Americans are at risk of eviction in the COVID-19 crisis because American policymakers have spent decades rejecting a public role in providing decent housing outside of the market system.
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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."
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SOURCE: Black Perspectives
8/20/2020
The Black Freedom Struggle of the North (Review)
"'The Strange Careers of the Jim Crow North' is a major milestone in the growing historical literature on racial discrimination and the civil rights struggle outside the South," writes Joshua Clark Davis.
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SOURCE: New York Times
8/14/2020
The Black Lives Next Door
by Richard Rothstein
Activism for racial justice will not succeed until activists recognize how residential segregation has been made into a normal feature of the American landscape and pressure the developers and banks who have profited from it to take restorative action.
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SOURCE: Washington Post
Trump’s Racist Housing Tweet is Par for His Family
Columnist Jennifer Rubin argues that Trump's appeal to white suburban homeowners echoes the discriminatory rental practices that built the Trump family real estate business.
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SOURCE: Boston Review
7/22/2020
Tearing Down Black America
by Brent Cebul
Ensuring that Black Lives Matter doesn't just require police reform. The history of urban renewal shows that governments have worked to dismantle and destabilize Black communities in the name of progress.
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SOURCE: Iowa City Press-Citizen
6/19/2020
UI Historian Reveals Iowa City's Racially Restrictive Covenants
A project from historian Colin Gordon and his research team accounts racially-restrictive deed covenants and subdivision restrictions in Johnson County, Iowa.
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SOURCE: Black Perspectives
6/16/2020
Appalachian Hillsides as Black Ecologies: Housing, Memory, and The Sanctified Hill Disaster of 1972
by Jillean McCommons
The Sanctified Hill disaster exposed the vulnerability of Black people to climate events due to a combination of placement and neglect.
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SOURCE: Chicago Teachers Union
5/19/2020
Zoom Webinar: Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor Discusses "Race for Profit," May 19, 4:30 PM CDT
The award-winning historian and public speaker will discuss the relationship between housing policy and racial inequality in the United States
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