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    Federal housing policies created after the Depression ensured that African-Americans and other people of color were left out of the new suburban communities — and pushed instead into urban housing projects, such as Detroit's Brewster-Douglass towers.
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    A 'Forgotten History' Of How The U.S. Government Segregated America

    May 03, 2017
    Author Richard Rothstein says the housing programs begun under the New Deal were tantamount to a "state-sponsored system of segregation," in which people of color were purposely excluded from suburbs.
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    The Two-Way
    The original HOLC map of New Orleans.
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    Interactive Redlining Map Zooms In On America's History Of Discrimination

    Oct 19, 2016
    In the early 20th century, the federal government categorized neighborhoods, based largely on race, to determine mortgage eligibility. A new site combines the maps — and their revealing backstories.
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    Code Switch
    Housing segregation leads to racially distinct social spaces, and not just when it comes to schools or offices.
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    Where Brunch And Housing Segregation Collide

    Jan 14, 2016
    The consequences of housing segregation can be severe. But they can also be intimate and nebulous, and show up at the most awkward times.
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