Federal housing policy denied black Americans wealth-building opportunities available to whites

Evidence

But the federal government also discriminated against black Americans to prevent their wealth building through the Department of Housing and Urban Development and the Department of Veterans Affairs. Redlining prevented prospective black homeowners from acquiring property with FHA insurance. White immigrants did not face similar obstacles. Recall how white immigrants were afforded access to land under the Homestead Act, while black Americans were denied the same access. — Dorothy A. Brown, Getting to Reparations, 353

Categorization

• XREF: Federal government explicitly discriminated rather than merely tolerating private discrimination. — connects to: Atlanta realtors formally obligated themselves not to sell to blacks in white areas — Kevin M. Kruse, White Flight: Atlanta and the Making of…, 147; Federal disaster loans excluded poor black homeowners while funding white rebuilding; White homebuyer preferences undermine progressive homeownership proposals for black Americans — Dorothy A. Brown, The Whiteness of Wealth: How the Tax…, 481