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Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership

by Keeanga – Yamahtta Taylor

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

Publisher

The University of North Carolina Press

Publication date

Oct 21, 2019

Format

Print edition

Pages

368

ISBN

9781469653662