Racism in Housing
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Revealed: 93% of districts in
major US cities unaffordable
to Black residents
The Guardian, May 2022
Black homes are often
undervalued. Black appraisers
are fighting to change that.
NBC News, April 2022
Racial covenants in home titles
to remain in public record, Washington Supreme Court rules
The Spokesman-Review, April 2022
Wells Fargo Rejected Half
Its Black Applicants in Mortgage Refinancing Boom
Bloomberg Businessweek, March 2022
Exclusionary zoning
dominates LA region.
Here's why it mattersfor equity
Othering & Belonging Inst., March 2022
The Lasting Legacy Of Redlining
FiveThirtyEight, Feb 2022
The Secret Bias Hidden in
Mortgage-Approval Algorithms
The Markup, August 2021
The U.S. Is Increasingly Diverse, So Why Is Segregation Getting Worse?
Time, June 2021
How a young Black family fought John L. Scott and changed Seattle
KUOW, June 2021
Black homeowner had a white
friend stand in for third appraisal.
Her home value doubled.
IndyStar, May 2021
Racist restrictions in old home
deeds across Washington state
will get expanded scrutiny
The Seattle Times, May 2021
Living Through Detroit’s
Perpetual Housing Crisis
The New Republic, March 2021
Your Home’s Value Is
Based on Racism
The New York Times, March 2021
Berkeley may get rid of single-family zoning as a way to correct the arc
of its ugly housing history
Berkeleyside, Feb. 2021
A Neighborhood’s Race Affects
Home Values More Now Than in 1980
Bloomberg City Lab, Sept. 2020
Black Homeowners Face Discrimination in Appraisals
New York Times, Aug. 2020
Homeownership racial gap is larger today than it was over 50 years ago
CNBC, Aug. 2020
The devaluing of black property has led to the devaluing of black lives
Vox, June 2020
Redlining’s Legacy of Inequality: $212,000 Less Home Equity, Low Homeownership Rates For
Black Families
Redfin, June 2020
Redlining 2.0: How Banks
Block Black Homebuyers
The Root, 2018
The devaluation of assets in
black neighborhoods
Brookings, Nov. 2018
Redlining was banned 50 years ago. It’s still hurting minorities today.
Washington Post, 2018
If You Want to Understand
the Economics of Institutional
Racism, Read This
The Root, 2018
Residential Segregation
Associated with Black–White
Disparity in Firearm Homicide Rates
Boston University, 2018
One Historic Black Neighborhood’s Stake in the Infrastructure Bill
The New York Times, Nov. 2021
Philadelphia is one of America's
most diverse cities — and one
of the most divided.
Philadelphia Inquirer, Nov. 2021
Florida city paints a different
racial portrait of America
Christian Science Monitor, August 2021
Black and Hispanic renters
experience discrimination in
almost every major American city
Vox, Dec. 2021
A Black couple says an
appraiser lowballed them. So,
they ‘whitewashed’ their home
and say the value shot up.
The Washington Post, Dec. 2021
Racial covenants, a relic of
the past, are still on the books
across the country
NPR, Nov. 2021
Why People of Color Are More
Likely to Die in Accidents Like
the Bronx Apartment Fire
Time, Jan. 2022
Illinois Homeowners Can Now Remove Racist Clauses From
Their Property Deeds
The New York Times, Jan. 2022
Does the deed to your Seattle-area home contain racist language? Next year, you can formally remove it
The Seattle Times, Dec. 2021
Books
Please buy from a black-owned bookstore (click here for a list), your local independent bookstore, or from the Bookshop link provided.
The Land Was Ours: How Black Beaches Became White Wealth
in the Coastal South
Andrew W Kahrl, 2016
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
Richard Rothstein, 2017
Race for Profit: How
Banks & the Real Estate
Industry Undermined Black Homeownership
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, 2019
Watch
Segregated by Design
17 minutes
How America’s 'residential caste' system feeds racial inequality & destroys opportunity
4 minutes
Listen
A 'Forgotten History' Of How The
U.S. Government Segregated America
Fresh Air, May 2017 (35 min.)
Block Away But Worlds Apart
Divided by Design, Feb. 2021 (22 min.)
Other Resources
Racial Restrictive Covenants History
University of Washington
Seattle Civil Rights & History Project
Restrictive Covenants Database
University of Washington
Seattle Civil Rights & History Project
Twenty-First Century Racial Residential Segregation
in the United States
Othering & Belonging Institute