Housing Discrimination and Racism in America
If your parents or grandparents bought a house in America during the post war boom years … they and you benefited from a system of racial oppression that encouraged white wealth building through home ownership with one hand … and held back black families with the other.
Mine did and I do.
This isn’t the episode I was planning to record this week but I hope you’ll stick around to think about how the history of housing discrimination in this country affects the mid-century houses we love and the world we all live in.
I'm using this week's podcast to talk about how systemic racism was literally…
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