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

5.0

An important and tough read about how the private-public partnership in creating better housing options (and pushing home ownership) for the poor and for Black Americans in the 1960s and 1970s was severely flawed and taken advantage of. Particularly disappointing to read how much the real estate industry determined to keep two markets: one for white customers, who would pay more to keep separate, and one for Black customers, to trick them into homes that were falling apart. Great detail on appraisals (although infuriating) and on the markets in Michigan especially.