Housing discrimination creates a negative feedback loop harming Black property values

Evidence

The vicious housing cycle had already begun. Racist policies harmed Black neighborhoods, generating racist ideas that caused people not to want to live next to Blacks, which depressed the value of Black homes, which caused people not to want to live in Black neighborhoods even more, owing to low property values. — Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning, 451

Categorization

• XREF: Directly instantiates Kendi’s core causal inversion — policy (housing segregation) produces ideas (aversion to living near Blacks) — the very mechanism the reader is studying. — connects to: Black homeownership actually raised property values in Mozley Park — Kevin M. Kruse, White Flight: Atlanta and the Making of…, 179; Federal housing policy institutionalized the equation of black occupancy with falling property values — Kevin M. Kruse, White Flight: Atlanta and the Making of…, 144; Housing-market discrimination makes purportedly free market choices illusory — Luke W. Cole and Sheila R. Foster, From the Ground Up: Environmental…, 317 (+5 more)
• QUESTION: This is a cleaner case of policy-before-ideas than most, but are there housing cases where pre-existing prejudice preceded the discriminatory policy? Worth testing against the reader’s counterexample.