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Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership
By Taylor, Keeanga-Yamahtta
- ISBN
- 9781469653662 9781469653679
- Publisher
- Univ. of North Carolina
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Starred Review on October 1, 2019 | Social Sciences
U.S. policy took a critical turn in the 1970s, from creating public housing to encouraging African Americans in low-income communities to purchase homes, explains Taylor (African American studies, Princeton Univ.; Rats, Riots and Revolution). Ending decades of redlining that restricted black homeownership, the Federal Housing Authority (FHA) joined with the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to launch an unprecedented public-private partnership with bankers, builders, and ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
