Present-day white homebuyer behavior, not past policy alone, sustains housing market racism

Evidence

There is a third factor, however, that those on the political left have failed to acknowledge: The real estate market is anti-black because most white homebuyers engage in anti-black behavior. — Dorothy A. Brown, Getting to Reparations, 1280

Categorization

• XREF: Challenges the left’s framing that current housing gap is purely legacy discrimination plus mortgage industry bias — a key objection-and-answer the reader needs to be able to defend. — connects to: Housing-market discrimination makes purportedly free market choices illusory — Luke W. Cole and Sheila R. Foster, From the Ground Up: Environmental…, 317; 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; White homeowners performed community solidarity as a defensive strategy against desegregation — Kevin M. Kruse, White Flight: Atlanta and the Making of…, 190
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Dorothy A. Brown, Getting to Reparations: How Building a…, 1280