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 ...