Fair Housing

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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: Black Perspectives
  3/1/2022
  

  CORE's Fight for Fair Housing in Los Angeles

  by M. Keith Claybrook, Jr.

  The fight for fair housing in Los Angeles demonstrates the way that racism has been maintained through the institutions of housing and real estate. 

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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: MSNBC
  9/4/2021
  

  House Hunting While Black: Racism Sabotages the American Dream

  by Keisha N. Blain

  "The current rate of mortgage denials — and the interrelated patterns of housing discrimination and exclusion — is rooted in American history. Discrimination against Black Americans applying for mortgage loans is not new."

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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: New York Magazine
  10/26/2020
  

  Two Visions of the Suburbs Are on the Ballot. Both Are Myths

  While Donald Trump imagines American suburbia as affluent, homogenous and imperiled by liberal housing policies, Joe Biden ignores the fact that separate suburban municipalities work to segregate Americans by race and class and perpetuate different levels of access to opportunity.

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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: New York Times
  9/3/2020
  

  How Trump Is Using Westchester to Stir Up Suburban Fears

  The bitter history of a federal lawsuit demanding that Yonkers, NY create low-income housing (which would allow more nonwhite residents to live in the city) informs Donald Trump's campaign pledges to protect the suburbs from evils he associates with fair housing laws. 

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• SOURCE: Bloomberg CityLab
  7/30/2020
  

  What Does Trump Think the ‘Suburban Lifestyle Dream’ Means?

  In his ongoing campaign to paint racial desegregation as a bid to “abolish the suburbs,” the president is pushing a vision of suburban voters based on a dated demographic reality. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  7/30/2020
  

  Why Trump’s Blunt Appeals to Suburban Voters May Not Work

  “[Nixon's campaigns] understood something about race that Trump doesn’t understand,” [Matthew] Lassiter said. “Voters don’t want racial privilege challenged, but they don’t want to be explicitly reminded that racism is underneath their position.”

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  6/8/2020
  

  Why Romney Marched

  Former Michigan Governor George Romney practiced a commitment to civil rights and fair housing even at political cost.