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While I'm sure there's plenty of self interest at play, it's important to remember that there were explicitly racist legal practices as well. A specific exampl
by thaw13579 11y ago
While I'm sure there's plenty of self interest at play, it's important to remember that there were explicitly racist legal practices as well. A specific example is the practice of racially restricted covenants, which literally prevents a home from being sold to a someone who isn't white:
http://www.bostonfairhousing.org/timeline/1920s1948-Restrictive-Covenants.html http://www.bostonfairhousing.org/timeline/1920s1948-Restrict...
- fiatmoney 11y agoAnd which haven't been enforceable for ~70 years, where they existed in at all. Some stuff has happened since then.
- thaw13579 11y agoAnd after that there was the FHA: http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2014/05/the-racist-housing-policy-that-made-your-neighborhood/371439/ http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2014/05/the-raci... Yes, "stuff" continues to happen, for better or worse, but it's hard to believe that the state of housing is independent of bigotry given the evidence.
- fiatmoney 11y agoAnd those policies ended 50 years ago! Liberals have been in charge of housing policy for literally decades.
- thaw13579 11y agoAnd yet, race is still today a factor that can be quantified wrt housing: https://portal.hud.gov/hudportal/HUD?src=/press/press_releases_media_advisories/2013/HUDNo.13-091 https://portal.hud.gov/hudportal/HUD?src=/press/press_releas...
- fiatmoney 11y agoGosh, it's almost like there are worse outcomes regardless of housing policy.