Housing Discrimination

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Under Ben Carson, more families live in HUD housing that fails health and safety inspections | NBC News While HUD Secretary Ben Carson pledged to fix low-income housing, the number of properties cited for health and safety violations has been on the rise.

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City Caught Trying To Grab Senior Citizen’s Brownstone | Kings County Politics “Home-ownership is one of the most important ways a family is able to build and transfer wealth from one generation to the next. In that light, and with the ever-increasing cost of living in this city, preserving home ownership opportunities is critical in predominantly black and brown communities like ours...”

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‘It Does Something to Your Soul When Everyone Losing Their Homes Looks Like You’ | Politico In Durham, a young lawyer raised in public housing teaches elite law students to save poor people from eviction.

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Fifty years later, Fair Housing Act recognized as a factor in fighting housing discrimination | New York Amsterdam News “Dr. King had been a strong supporter of the Fair Housing Act, openly pushing for it in Chicago in 1967...”

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Undoing the Dirty Deed: How ‘Whites Only’ Language from Restrictive Housing Covenants Remain on Deeds Across The Country | Atlanta Black Star Unfortunately, well into the second decade of the 21st century, discrimination in the housing market against African-Americans remains far from rare.

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Develop Detroit cultivates affordable housing in the Motor City | Michigan Chronicle Since its inception in June, 2015, Develop Detroit, which received startup capital from JPMorgan Chase, has been on a mission that focuses on real estate development and providing living opportunities that meet the real needs of Detroiters.

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‘Segregation Had to Be Invented’ – The Atlantic During the late 19th century, blacks and whites in the South lived closer together than they do today.

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Housing inequality is a failure to govern, and the market is not the answer We need to change the way we think about housing. Like access to education and health, having a home is a human right