Affordable Housing, Racial Isolation – The New York Times

“A Supreme Court ruling last week forcefully reminded state and local governments that the Fair Housing Act of 1968 forbids them from spending federal housing money in ways that perpetuate segregation. Communities across the country have been doing exactly that for decades.

Instead of building subsidized housing in racially integrated areas that offer minority citizens access to jobs and good schools, local governments have often deepened racial isolation by placing such housing in existing ghettos.”

via Affordable Housing, Racial Isolation – The New York Times.

How Racism Doomed Baltimore – NYTimes.com

“The Federal Housing Administration, created in 1934 by Congress to promote homeownership by insuring private mortgages, could have staved off housing segregation by enforcing a nondiscrimination policy. Instead, as the historian Kenneth Jackson explained in “Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States,” the agency reflected “the racist tradition of the United States.” It insisted on a rigid, white-black separation in housing. It openly supported racist covenants that largely excluded African-Americans — even the middle class and well-to-do — from the homeownership boom that took place between the 1930s and the 1960s. And it typically denied mortgages to black residents wherever they lived.”

via How Racism Doomed Baltimore – NYTimes.com.

Les Disparu dan Les Estates Unis. Modern slavery indicates genocide.

This is nuts. It is a form of slavery, that indicates genocide.

1.5 Million Missing Black Men

Across the country, hundreds of thousands of black men are missing from everyday life.

nytimes.com|By DAVID LEONHARDT

NYT Exposé: Skip Child Support. Go to Jail. Lose Job. Repeat.

This is nuts. It is a form of slavery, that smells of genocide.

Though jail is considered an effective incentive for parents who are able to pay, critics say punitive policies do not work for those who are poor.

nytimes.com|By FRANCES ROBLES