Affordable Housing Through a Racial Justice Lens: Recommended Reading List #1

Race: The Power of an Illusion -- Online Exploration

https://www.racepowerofanillusion.org/

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An online companion to the award-winning documentary series by California Newsreel discussing the origins, beliefs and consequences of what we call race. ...Show more An online companion to the award-winning documentary series by California Newsreel discussing the origins, beliefs and consequences of what we call race. Dive deeper into the PBS program that helped Americans look systematically at "how we got here" with issues of race and do a further exploration on how this has impacted housing in America. Show less

https://canalalliance.org/

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Canal Alliance offers immigration legal services, education and career programs, and social services to help Latino immigrants and their families overcome the barriers to success. Canal Alliance offers immigration legal services, education and career programs, and social services to help Latino immigrants and their families overcome the barriers to success. Show less

Fair Housing Advocates of Northern California - Home

http://www.fairhousingnorcal.org/

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Fair Housing Advocates of Northern California is a 501(c)(3) organization serving Marin and other North Bay counties in areas of fair housing, fair lending, foreclosure prevention and housing advocacy. Fair Housing Advocates of Northern California is a 501(c)(3) organization serving Marin and other North Bay counties in areas of fair housing, fair lending, foreclosure prevention and housing advocacy. Show less

https://sogoreate-landtrust.org/

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Sogorea Te’ Land Trust is an urban Indigenous women-led land trust based in the San Francisco Bay Area that facilitates the return of Indigenous land to Indigenous people. Sogorea Te’ Land Trust is an urban Indigenous women-led land trust based in the San Francisco Bay Area that facilitates the return of Indigenous land to Indigenous people. Show less

Unjust Deeds

The Restrictive Covenant Cases and the Making of the Civil Rights Movement

by Gonda, Jeffrey D.

Book - 2015

In 1945, six African American families from St. Louis, Detroit, and Washington, D.C., began a desperate fight to keep their homes. Each of them had purcha...Show more In 1945, six African American families from St. Louis, Detroit, and Washington, D.C., began a desperate fight to keep their homes. Each of them had purchased a property that prohibited the occupancy of African Americans and other minority groups through the use of legal instruments called racial restrictive covenants--one of the most pervasive tools of residential segregation in the aftermath of World War II. Over the next three years, local activists and lawyers at the NAACP fought through the nation's courts to end the enforcement of these discriminatory contracts. Unjust Deeds explores the origins and complex legacies of their dramatic campaign, culminating in a landmark Supreme Court victory in Shelley v. Kraemer (1948). Show less

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Race for Profit

How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership

by Taylor, Keeanga-Yamahtta

Book - 2019

Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor offers a chronicle of the twilight of redlining and the introduction of conventional real estate practices into the Black urban market, uncovering a transition from racist exclusion to predatory inclusion. Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor offers a chronicle of the twilight of redlining and the introduction of conventional real estate practices into the Black urban market, uncovering a transition from racist exclusion to predatory inclusion. Show less

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The Color of Law

A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America

by Rothstein, Richard

Book - 2017

In this groundbreaking history of the modern American metropolis, Richard Rothstein, a leading authority on housing policy, explodes the myth that America...Show more In this groundbreaking history of the modern American metropolis, Richard Rothstein, a leading authority on housing policy, explodes the myth that America's cities came to be racially divided through de facto segregation-that is, through individual prejudices, income differences, or the actions of private institutions like banks and real estate agencies. Show less

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The Warmth of Other Suns

The Epic Story of America's Great Migration

by Wilkerson, Isabel

Book - 2010

In this epic, beautifully written masterwork, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Isabel Wilkerson chronicles one of the great untold stories of American histor...Show more In this epic, beautifully written masterwork, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Isabel Wilkerson chronicles one of the great untold stories of American history: the decades-long migration of black citizens who fled the South for northern and western cities, in search of a better life. From 1915 to 1970, this exodus of almost six million people changed the face of America. Show less

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Encore -- Tierra y libertad : land, liberty, and Latino housing by Steven W. Bender

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In Tierra y Libertad, Steven W. Bender traces the history of Latinos' struggle for adequate housing opportunities, from the nineteenth century to today's ...Show more In Tierra y Libertad, Steven W. Bender traces the history of Latinos' struggle for adequate housing opportunities, from the nineteenth century to today's anti-immigrant policies and national mortgage crisis. Spanning southwest to northeast, rural to urban, Bender analyzes the legal hurdles that prevent better housing opportunities and offers ways to approach sweeping legal reform. Show less

The Lines Between Us

Two Families and A Quest to Cross Baltimore's Racial Divide

by Lanahan, Lawrence

Book - 2019

Deeply reported and deftly told, The Lines Between Us, a riveting story from DuPont Award - winning journalist Lawrence Lanahan, compels reflection on Ame...Show more Deeply reported and deftly told, The Lines Between Us, a riveting story from DuPont Award - winning journalist Lawrence Lanahan, compels reflection on America's entrenched inequality - and on where the rubber meets the road not in the abstract, but in our own backyards. The criss-crossing stories of Mark, a white devout Christian who sells his suburban home to move to Baltimore's inner city, and Nicole, a black mother determined to leave West Baltimore for the suburbs, chronicle how the region became so deeply segregated and why these fault lines persist today. Show less

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Tales of Two Americas

Stories of Inequality in A Divided Nation

Book - 2017

In Tales of Two Americas, some of the literary world's most exciting writers look beyond numbers and wages to convey what it feels like to live in this di...Show more In Tales of Two Americas, some of the literary world's most exciting writers look beyond numbers and wages to convey what it feels like to live in this divided nation. Their extraordinarily powerful stories, essays, and poems demonstrate how boundaries break down when experiences are shared, and that in sharing our stories we can help to alleviate a suffering that touches so many people. Show less

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Evicted

Poverty and Profit in the American City

by Desmond, Matthew

Book - 2016

As we see families forced into shelters, squalid apartments, or more dangerous neighborhoods, we bear witness to the human cost of America's vast inequali...Show more As we see families forced into shelters, squalid apartments, or more dangerous neighborhoods, we bear witness to the human cost of America's vast inequality-- and to people's determination and intelligence in the face of hardship. Based on years of embedded fieldwork and painstakingly gathered data, this masterful book transforms our understanding of extreme poverty and economic exploitation while providing fresh ideas for solving a devastating, uniquely American problem. Show less

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In Defense of Housing

The Politics of Crisis

by Madden, David J.

Book - 2016

Everyone needs and deserves housing. But today our homes are being transformed into commodities, making the inequalities of the city ever more acute. Prof...Show more Everyone needs and deserves housing. But today our homes are being transformed into commodities, making the inequalities of the city ever more acute. Profit has become more important than social need. The poor are forced to pay more for worse housing. Communities are faced with the violence of displacement and gentrification. And the benefits of decent housing are only available for those who can afford it. Show less

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Family Properties

Race, Real Estate, and the Exploitation of Black Urban America

by Satter, Beryl

Book - 2021

Family Properties: Race, Real Estate, and the Exploitation of Black Urban America is a monumental work of history, this tale of racism and real estate, po...Show more Family Properties: Race, Real Estate, and the Exploitation of Black Urban America is a monumental work of history, this tale of racism and real estate, politics and finance, will forever change our understanding of the forces that transformed urban America. Show less

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A Dream Foreclosed

Black America and the Fight for A Place to Call Home

by Gottesdiener, Laura

Book - 2013

Real-life stories of how banks are ravaging the country--particularly African American communities--and how some families have joined together to fight back. Real-life stories of how banks are ravaging the country--particularly African American communities--and how some families have joined together to fight back. Show less

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Newcomers

Gentrification and Its Discontents

by Schuerman, Matthew L.

Book - 2019

The full story of gentrification is rooted in large-scale social and economic forces as well as in extremely local specifics--in short, it's far more comp...Show more The full story of gentrification is rooted in large-scale social and economic forces as well as in extremely local specifics--in short, it's far more complicated than both its supporters and detractors allow. In Newcomers, journalist Matthew Schuerman explains how a phenomenon that began with good intentions has turned into one of the most vexing social problems of our time. Show less

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U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Office of Policy Development and Research Efforts to Improve HomeownershipOpportunities for Hispanics Case Studies of Three Market Areas

https://www.huduser.gov/Publications/PDF/hisp_homeown2.pdf

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This report is part of a multi-phased research project undertaken by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development to understand better the factor...Show more This report is part of a multi-phased research project undertaken by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development to understand better the factors that influence Hispanic homeownership rates and the reasons why Hispanic rates are lower than those of non-Hispanic whites. Show less

The Voucher Promise

"Section 8" and the Fate of An American Neighborhood

by Rosen, Eva

Book - 2020

This book examines the Housing Voucher Choice Program, colloquially known as "Section 8," and the effect of the program on low-income families l...Show more This book examines the Housing Voucher Choice Program, colloquially known as "Section 8," and the effect of the program on low-income families living in Park Heights in Baltimore. In a new era of housing policy that hopes to solve poverty with opportunity in the form of jobs, social networks, education, and safety, the program offers the poor access to a new world: safe streets, good schools, and well-paying jobs through housing vouchers. The system should, in theory, give recipients access to housing in a wide range of neighborhoods, but in The Voucher Promise, Rosen examines how the housing policy, while showing great promise, faces critical limitations. Show less

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The Affordable City

Strategies for Putting Housing Within Reach (and Keeping It There)

by Phillips, Shane

Book - 2020

From Los Angeles to Boston and Chicago to Miami, US cities are struggling to address the twin crises of high housing costs and household instability. Deba...Show more From Los Angeles to Boston and Chicago to Miami, US cities are struggling to address the twin crises of high housing costs and household instability. Debates over the appropriate course of action have been defined by two poles: building more housing or enacting stronger tenant protections. These options are often treated as mutually exclusive, with support for one implying opposition to the other. Shane Phillips believes that effectively tackling the housing crisis requires that cities support both tenant protections and housing abundance. Show less

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How to Kill A City

Gentrification, Inequality, and the Fight for the Neighborhood

by Moskowitz, Peter

Book - 2017

A journey to the front lines of the battle for the future of American cities, uncovering the massive, systemic forces behind gentrification -- and the liv...Show more A journey to the front lines of the battle for the future of American cities, uncovering the massive, systemic forces behind gentrification -- and the lives that are altered in the process. The term gentrification has become a buzzword to describe the changes in urban neighborhoods across the country, but we don't realize just how threatening it is. It means more than the arrival of trendy shops, much-maligned hipsters, and expensive lattes. The very future of American cities as vibrant, equitable spaces hangs in the balance. Show less

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