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Report explaining the interaction between the war on drugs and housing policy, and ways in which public housing access was restricted based on real or suspected drug use.

Brief history of African American exclusion from and eventual access to suburbs.

NPR interview, interview transcript, and summary of interview with Richard Rothstein, author of The Color of Law.

TED Ed about how American suburbs were shaped by racial covenants, and how this led to racial disparities in homeownershpi

Historical Context of Racist Planning: A history of how planning segregated Portland is a review of racist planning practices in Portland. This systemic discrimination, which was also practiced nationwide and goes back to the origins of our country,…

explanation of historic and current racism in housing.

People of color or mixed race account for more than half of all people experiencing homelessness, despite comprising less than a quarter of the total population in the United States. What are the primary drivers of this severe racial concentration of…

Very brief national overview of public housing history.