A review by ishdaya
Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

5.0

Wowwwww. This book was incredibly insightful, and really takes you through a winding journey of housing policy between the late 60’s and early 70’s. This book is a brilliant analysis around root causes behind how historic housing policies failed. Each page takes like 5 minutes to read because of its density (at least for me), but I came out of each session reflecting on how we have taken some of these same concepts and implemented them and have continued to fail because we continue to look to the private sector or the ‘free market’ as a tool of advancement, rather than seeing it as a racist and defunct tool of oppression. Really well done, really dense, but so well worth it!