To understand systemic racism in housing, don’t go first to white authors that many recommend (whose books are good & important). Start w/brilliant analysis from Black and brown writers and thinkers.
Here are some must reads:
Here are some must reads:
“The Case for Reparations” by Ta-Nehisi Coates theatlantic.com/magazine/archi….
Also his books Between the World and Me, and We Were Eight Years in Power.
Also his books Between the World and Me, and We Were Eight Years in Power.
“Living Apart: How the Government Betrayed a Landmark Civil Rights Law” — by @nhannahjones. propublica.org/article/living….
All of @nhannahjones The 1619 Project, written articles and podcasts: nytimes.com/interactive/20…
“The Real Roots of ‘Black Capitalism’” nytimes.com/2019/03/31/opi… via @MehrsaBaradaran. Also her book “The Color of Money: Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap”
Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership by @KeeangaYamahtta uncpress.org/book/978146965…
“American Project: The Rise and Fall of an American Ghetto” by @sudhirvenkatesh hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?is…
The Politics of Public Housing: Black Women’s Struggles Against Yrban Inequality, by Rhonda Williams. global.oup.com/academic/produ…
High Rise Stories: Voices from Chicago Public Housing by Audrey Petty. voiceofwitness.org/oral-history-b…
The Negro Ghetto, by Robert Weaver. jstor.org/stable/2144828… 
