Federal tax subsidies for homeownership function as lawful, contemporary redlining.

Evidence

In truth, homeownership in America is rigged and has been from the beginning. Most white homeowners win, and all but a few black homeowners lose. Forget the Fair Housing Act, forget redlining, forget the illegal but still active practice of mortgage discrimination. Today’s federal government creates and perpetuates pro-white policies in the form of tax subsidies for homeownership that are perfectly lawful. Tax subsidies for homeownership are little more than the twenty-first-century version of redlining, and they must be repealed. — Dorothy A. Brown, The Whiteness of Wealth, 246

Categorization

• DEFINE: Establishes the book’s central framing concept: race-neutral-sounding tax provisions as the lawful, contemporary continuation of explicitly racist housing policy.
• SEED: Frame for the essay/article: ‘the lawful mechanisms that replaced redlining’ as a tax-policy audit.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Dorothy A. Brown, The Whiteness of Wealth: How the Tax…, 246