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A review by maryreadstoomuch
Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
4.0
4.5 stars - it took me a little while to get into the book but it picked up after the first chapter.
Taylor is very thorough and persuasive in laying out her argument of "predatory inclusion" - the end of redlining certainly didn't mean the end of discrimination. It was hard to read these horror stories of people conned into buying houses in terrible condition and to learn how these public-private partnerships benefited banks/investors instead of home buyers. The end of the book is a gut punch - Taylor ties the pivot away from equal housing and other Great Society programs to the general breakdown of the social contract. Really illuminating - I would recommend to anyone interested in policy and social justice.
Taylor is very thorough and persuasive in laying out her argument of "predatory inclusion" - the end of redlining certainly didn't mean the end of discrimination. It was hard to read these horror stories of people conned into buying houses in terrible condition and to learn how these public-private partnerships benefited banks/investors instead of home buyers. The end of the book is a gut punch - Taylor ties the pivot away from equal housing and other Great Society programs to the general breakdown of the social contract. Really illuminating - I would recommend to anyone interested in policy and social justice.