Racism, location and enduring poverty

Living in a poor neighborhood changes everything about your life

by Alvin Chang on January 12, 2017

In 1940, a white developer wanted to build a neighborhood in Detroit.

 

So he asked the US Federal Housing Administration to back a loan. The FHA, which was created just six years earlier to help middle-class families buy homes, said no because the development was too close to an "inharmonious" racial group.

Meaning black people.

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