Dismantling racism in housing requires confronting both past and present

Evidence

Luck and strategy paved the way for black homeownership in generations past, and unfortunately, they’re still a requirement for the type of black homeownership that leads to wealth building. To dismantle the system means fully acknowledging the racist past that shaped today’s real estate market—but it also requires each of us, black and white, to confront the market’s racist present. — Dorothy A. Brown, Getting to Reparations, 1305

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Fair Housing Act can reach municipal zoning decisions harming communities of color; Market-dynamics siting outcomes remain racist once housing discrimination is factored in — Luke W. Cole and Sheila R. Foster, From the Ground Up: Environmental…, 336; Challenging segregation required exposing how government had shaped housing patterns. — Matthew D. Lassiter, The Suburban Origins of “Color-Blind”…, 29 (+9 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Fair Housing Act can reach municipal zoning decisions harming communities of color; Market-dynamics siting outcomes remain racist once housing discrimination is factored in — Luke W. Cole and Sheila R. Foster, From the Ground Up: Environmental…, 336; Challenging segregation required exposing how government had shaped housing patterns. — Matthew D. Lassiter, The Suburban Origins of “Color-Blind”…, 29 (+9 more)

Broader Connections

• Civil rights reform fortified structural racism rather than undermining it #complicates (0.80) — Michael Omi, Howard Winant, Racial Formation in the United States, 218
• Housing scarcity and residential transition drove working-class whites into organized racism #complicates (0.72) — Kevin M. Kruse, White Flight, 104