Title Race for profit : how banks and the real estate industry undermined black homeownership / Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor.

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Old Saybrook, Conn. : Tantor Media, ℗2020.

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Edition	Unabridged.
Description	1 online resource (12 hr., 30 min.)
Playing Time	123000
Note	Downloadable audio file.
Performer	Narrated by Janina Edwards.
Summary	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.
Subject	Discrimination in housing -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
	Discrimination in mortgage loans -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
	Urban African Americans -- Housing -- History -- 20th century.
	African Americans -- Housing -- History -- 20th century.
	African American women -- Housing -- History -- 20th century.
	Real estate business -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
	United States -- Race relations -- Economic aspects.
	African Americans -- Housing. (OCoLC)fst00799626
	Discrimination in housing. (OCoLC)fst00895081
	Discrimination in mortgage loans. (OCoLC)fst00895112
	Race relations -- Economic aspects. (OCoLC)fst01086512
	Real estate business. (OCoLC)fst01090898
	United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Chronological Term	1900-1999
Genre/Form	Downloadable audio books.
	Audiobooks. (OCoLC)fst01726208
	History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
	Audiobooks.
Added Author	Edwards, Janina. Narrator.
	Tantor Media.
ISBN	1494546140 (electronic audio bk.)
	9781494546144 (electronic audio bk.)
Music No.	Z100156315 Recorded Books

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