
Race for Profit
How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership
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Janina Edwards
By the late 1960s and early 1970s, reeling from a wave of urban uprisings, politicians finally worked to end the practice of redlining. Reasoning that the turbulence could be calmed by turning Black city-dwellers into homeowners, they passed the Housing and Urban Development Act of 1968, and set about establishing policies to induce mortgage lenders and the real estate industry to treat Black homebuyers equally. The disaster that ensued revealed that racist exclusion had not been eradicated, but rather transmuted into a new phenomenon of predatory inclusion.
Race for Profit uncovers how exploitative real estate practices continued well after housing discrimination was banned. The same racist structures and individuals remained intact after redlining's end, and close relationships between regulators and the industry created incentives to ignore improprieties. Meanwhile, new policies meant to encourage low-income homeownership created new methods to exploit Black homeowners.
Narrating the story of a sea-change in housing policy and its dire impact on African Americans, Race for Profit reveals how the urban core was transformed into a new frontier of cynical extraction.
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I recommend to anyone in housing public or private.
This rating based on my listening in 2021.
The role of government, banks, brokers, and realtors in housing discrimination over 100 years
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Comprehensive
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By Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
No lie! This book was so well researched, edited, written. From the title and its cover to the conclusion "Predatory Inclusion" was way more than I could have asked for. All of it was masterfully left on these pages.
It took me a little more than a minute because I had to pace myself, take deep breaths, scream, cuss...collect my thoughts and regroup.
The malfeasance, predatory negligence and neglect of Government and its treacherous policies and practices; institutional, corrupt failures steeped in this racial, suppressed, discriminatory culture. The levels of inequality and inequity is staggering!!!
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This book was an exercise in personal restraint. It took everything in me to hold it together.
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#theseunitedstates
THE UGLY TRUTH
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Powerful. Thoroughly researched. Necessary.
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Great listen!
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Excellent source of knowledge
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Race for Profit
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It all makes sense now!
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A Great Book
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A must read for all Black Americans
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