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Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership

Keeanga-Yamahtta

federal housing policy that targeted African Americans after officials ended the practice of redlining in the late 1960s.

https://uncpress.org/book/9781469653662/race-for-profit/

https://shelterforce.org/2020/06/11/the_age_of_predatory_inclusion/

follows eight families in Milwaukee as they each struggle to keep a roof over their heads. Provides an expanded understanding of poverty and economic exploitation while providing fresh ideas for solving one of twenty-first-century America’s most devastating problems.

https://www.evictedbook.com/

A Pulitzer prize winnning non-fiction account of the great migration that took place for many black families in the early 20th centry as they fled from the south to the north and the west.

https://www.amazon.com/Warmth-Other-Suns-Americas-Migration/dp/0679763880

examines the local, state and federal housing policies that mandated segregation and how these decades-old housing policies have had a lasting effect on American society.

https://wwnorton.com/books/9781631492853

https://www.npr.org/2017/05/03/526655831/a-forgotten-history-of-how-the-u-s-government-segregated-america

The Fight for Fair Housing: Causes, Consequences, and Future Implications of the 1968 Federal Fair Housing Act

This a collection of scholarly essays from Gregory Squires. It is an investigation into the events that lead to the Fair housing act and the consequences of a policy created 50 years ago. The book might be a bit advanced but it begins to unravel and expound upon the complex issue of fair housing and its relationship to protected classes.

https://www.amazon.com/Fight-Fair-Housing-Consequences-Implications/dp/1138682543

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3200089 https://shelterforce.org/2018/08/31/a-review-of-the-fight-for-fair-housing/

This is a sweeping analysis of the racism found in American residental patterns, particularlly in the south.

https://www.amazon.com/Sundown-Towns-Hidden-Dimension-American/dp/0743294483

Melvin Oliver and Thomas Shapiro

It is an older book, but it is award winning in its analsis and is still relevent to this day. The authors dive deep into the racial inequity in wealth and wealth building, and how policies have failed to redress the issue.

https://www.amazon.com/Black-Wealth-White-Perspective-Inequality/dp/0415951674

https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-415-91375-1

This is possibly my favorite book of all time (nick watson). It is entirely esoteric and hard to understand, but this is the source of the capability approach to poverty. Sen is a nobel prize winning economist who sees the human impact of rampant GDP growth and the misplaced value ranking of capitalism. Looks for sustainable develpment and asks how and why should we construct our communites.

https://www.amazon.com/Development-as-Freedom-Amartya-Sen/dp/0385720270

This is the far more accessable version of the capability approach to poverty and human development. I think Nussbaum's work has far reaching implecations on how we should construct communities. A fair bit of her worrk is esoteric, but this should be more accessable. Nussbaum is brilliant.

https://www.amazon.com/Creating-Capabilities-Human-Development-Approach/dp/0674072359

https://ndpr.nd.edu/news/creating-capabilities-the-human-development-approach-2/

Not specifically about fair housing and it's history, but this has to be in there. It is maybe the single most influential book about racial inequality ever written. The issue of "colorblindess" and the persistantce and pervasiveness of mass incarceration on all aspects of black life (including housing and how we build communities) are sadly relevent 10 years later.

https://newjimcrow.com/

Douglas S. Massey and Nancy Denton

This also might be a bit advanced, but it comes from some reputable scholars. This book shows that, despite the 1986 fair housing act, hypersegregation still exists and has created a massive underclass of black men and women.

https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674018211

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1993-05-30-bk-41319-story.html

Facing segregation : housing policy solutions for a stronger society

Essays exploring successes and challenges on the 50th anniversary of the passage of the Fair Housing Act

https://www.amazon.com/Facing-Segregation-Housing-Solutions-Stronger-ebook/dp/B07KKL3TF2/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=facing+segregation&qid=1612221294&s=digital-text&sr=1-1

Specific chapter on housing, pages 109-139; illustrates generational (and racial) differences in access

https://www.amazon.com/OK-Boomer-Lets-Talk-Generation/dp/1982153768

Furthuring Fair Housing: Prospects for Racial Justice in America's Neighborhoods

A textbook that analyzes federal policy to advance racial equity in housing and neighborhoods.

https://www.amazon.com/Furthering-Fair-Housing-Prospects-Neighborhoods/dp/1439920729

Not in my neighborhood: how bigotry shaped a great American city

An analysis of the impact that discrimination practices have had on our cities.

https://www.amazon.com/Not-My-Neighborhood-Bigotry-American/dp/1566638437/ref=sr_1_2?crid=714ZCSRGABX&keywords=Not+in+my+neighborhood%3A+how+bigotry+shaped+a+great+American+city&qid=1646315299&s=books&sprefix=not+in+my+neighborhood+how+bigotry+shaped+a+great+american+city%2Cstripbooks%2C225&sr=1-2

Toxic inequality : how America's wealth gap destroys mobility, deepens the racial divide, and threatens our future

Broader look at inequality in the United States but also covers housing.

https://www.amazon.com/Toxic-Inequality-Americas-Destroys-Threatens/dp/0465046932/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1QL5U3W5TB2O4&keywords=Toxic+inequality+%3A+how+America%27s+wealth+gap+destroys+mobility%2C+deepens+the+racial+divide%2C+and+threatens+our+future&qid=1646316035&sprefix=toxic+inequality+how+america%27s+wealth+gap+destroys+mobility%2C+deepens+the+racial+divide%2C+and+threatens+our+future%2Caps%2C107&sr=8-1

Investigation into the housing crisis with a focus on the Bay area.

https://www.amazon.com/Golden-Gates-Fighting-Housing-America/dp/0525560211

Middle grade focus on 1960's/70's Civil Rights laws, including a chapter on the Fair Housing Act.

https://www.amazon.com/Changing-Laws-Politics-Civil-Rights/dp/1619309246/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=Changing+laws+%3A+politics+of+the+civil+rights+era&qid=1612222366&sr=8-1

This is the autoboigraphy of Ruby Bridges and her experinces living through the segregration of america's schools.

https://www.amazon.com/Through-My-Eyes-Ruby-Bridges/dp/0590189239

This is a children's book about a pig moving into an aparment complex and the fears that the other residents have about what type of person the pig will be!

https://www.amazon.com/Pig-Moving-Claudia-Fries/dp/0531333078

This seems like a book designed for older children. It outlines a young girl's first encounter with prejudice when a black family moves into a predominantly white neighborhood.

https://www.amazon.com/Black-White-Albert-Whitman-Prairie/dp/0807507792

Freedom Riders: John Lewis and Jim Zwerg on the Front Lines of the Civil Rights Movement

This is a adult fiction novel about two young men meeting on a bus on the Freedom Ride. Provides a personal perspective on the experince

https://www.amazon.com/Freedom-Riders-Lewis-Rights-Movement/dp/0792241738

This seems horribly topical. This is a YA fiction novel about a young girl moving from NYC to nashville and encountering conderate memorialization. She doesn't understand why there are confereate flags everywhere. She finds herself in a city divided, and it is a story about what it means to be american.

https://www.amazon.com/Heart-Divided-Cherie-Bennett/dp/0385327498

introduces a bevy of themes, all meant to sensitize readers to the realities of U.S. homelessness and highlight the humanity of those who live in the streets, in parks, and in cars, storage facilities, and overcrowded dwellings.

https://charlesbrucefoundation.square.site/product/priscilla-princess-of-the-park/164?cs=true

A father and his son live in an airport because they are homeless - picture book

https://www.amazon.com/Fly-Away-Home-Eve-Bunting/dp/0395664152/ref=pd_sim_b2b_4/144-3133912-9197352?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=0395664152&pd_rd_r=da2ad8f6-d426-47d6-ad16-62395290e4d1&pd_rd_w=AHc9E&pd_rd_wg=K5b2j&pf_rd_p=a07701e4-f565-442a-b97f-93ab23cbb7ef&pf_rd_r=S3WVSZS3VNXBW705RD1N&psc=1&refRID=S3WVSZS3VNXBW705RD1N

Every Sunday after church, CJ and his grandma ride the bus across town. But today, CJ wonders why they don’t own a car like his friend Colby. Why doesn’t he have an iPod like the boys on the bus? How come they always have to get off in the dirty part of town?

https://www.amazon.com/Last-Stop-Market-Street-Matt/dp/0399257748/ref=sr_1_1?crid=NN2JFKUOWPAL&dchild=1&keywords=last+stop+on+market+street&qid=1612222527&sprefix=last+stop+%2Caps%2C223&sr=8-1

After their home is destroyed by a fire, Rosa, her mother and grandmother save their coins to buy a really comfortable chair for all to enjoy. "A superbly conceived picture book expressing the joyful spirit of a loving family."--Horn Book.

https://www.amazon.com/Vera-B-Williams/e/B000APTWBI/ref=dp_byline_cont_pop_book_1

Jaqueline Woodson

Clover's mom says it isn't safe to cross the fence that segregates their African-American side of town from the white side where Anna lives. But the two girls strike up a friendship, and get around the grown-ups' rules by sitting on top of the fence together.

https://www.amazon.com/Other-Side-Jacqueline-Woodson/dp/0399231161/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2PCE2RURF3UVD&dchild=1&keywords=the+other+side+jacqueline+woodson&qid=1612222740&sprefix=other+side+jac%2Cdigital-text%2C167&sr=8-1

Greater New Orleans Fair Housing Association

A picture book about kids who take action in their neighborhood against a landlord who is discriminating.

https://www.amazon.com/Fair-Housing-Five-Haunted-House/dp/1461147174

English/Spanish

Hernández-Linares

Nine-year-old Alejandria rallies her family and community to fight and save their neighborhood from rising rent prices and evictions.

https://www.amazon.com/Alejandria-Fights-Back-%C2%A1-Lucha/dp/1558617043/ref=sr_1_1?crid=11F9L7LB3QCMC&keywords=Alejandria+Fights+Back%21+%2F+%C2%A1La+Lucha+de+Alejandria%21&qid=1646334931&sprefix=alejandria+fights+back+%2F+la+lucha+de+alejandria+%2Caps%2C90&sr=8-1

English/ Spanish

This bilingual picture book introduces young people to the Chicano Park Takeover in Barrio Logan, San Diego in 1970.

https://www.amazon.com/Spirit-Chicano-Park-esp%C3%ADritu-parque/dp/0981695027/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2YVY2GVG8ZW6M&keywords=the+spirit+of+chicano+park&qid=1646335830&sprefix=the+spirit+of+chicano+park%2Caps%2C99&sr=8-1

Young Adult book that follows 13 year old Arturo on his quest to save the family restaurant and save the town.

https://www.amazon.com/Epic-Fail-Arturo-Zamora/dp/1101997257/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1Y57A1XU9ZHKE&keywords=The+epic+fail+of+Arturo+Zamora&qid=1646336433&sprefix=the+epic+fail+of+arturo+zamora%2Caps%2C72&sr=8-1

The story of Africville a once vibrant black community in Nova Scotia that was demolished by the city and the residents were forced into public housing.

https://www.amazon.com/Africville-Shauntay-Grant/dp/1773060430/ref=sr_1_2?crid=VE8YDG1XKCZI&keywords=africville&qid=1646337861&sprefix=africville%2Caps%2C73&sr=8-2

Through the stories of a retired New York City cop, an eccentric Orange County realtor, and an aspiring real estate developer in Baltimore, Owned explores the promise of US housing policies, the systematic oppression in many of America’s “chocolate cities,” and the communities that these systems have created. The film suggests that ultimately, these communities have more in common than they might expect.

https://www.ownedfilm.com/

6-minute Code Switch special about how past housing segregation still fuels disparities in income, health, wealth, policing, and education.

https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2018/04/11/601494521/video-housing-segregation-in-everything

English/Spanish subtitles

Kavanaugh Productions

27-minute documentary outlines the history of residential discrimination and segregation, the development of fair housing laws, and the patterns of discrimination that continue today. Using the stories of three people experiencing discrimination based on race, sexual orientation, source of income, and disability, this film draws connections between an unaddressed national history of bias and current housing insecurity and injustice.

https://www.fairhousingjustice.org/resources/film/

Understanding and communicating the impacts of new investment on an old community can be extremely difficult. Priced Out exprores gentrification in Portland, Oregon and how neighborhoods, towns, and cities navigate new investment when they have been historically neglected or underinvested.

https://www.pricedoutmovie.com/

For a perspective on how gentrification impacts individual people in a community, this eight-minute documentary was made by a young filmmaker in Brooklyn. Samori Amir-Toure interviews local community members in Clinton Hill and uncovers some of the societal, cultural, and personal impacts of the subtle but significant changes to the neighborhood.

https://www.cultureunplugged.com/documentary/watch-online/play/1994/Evolution-of-the-Hill

On the coldest night of the year, a Cincinnati librarian is caught between a group of homeless patrons staging a sit-in and a face-off with the local police and media.

https://www.amazon.com/Public-Alec-Baldwin/dp/B07SZ38CK6/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=the+public+estevez&qid=1612222114&sr=8-1

PBS Frontline Episode: Looks into reasons why despite billions of dollars going into subsidized housing for the poor, many in need experience difficulty acquiring adequate housing. Explores racial inequality in the housing market.

https://www.amazon.com/Poverty-Politics-Profit-Emma-Schwartz/dp/B08CVTGG2B/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=Poverty%2C+politics+%26+profits+%3A+the+housing+crisis&qid=1612222007&sr=8-1

Congressional Research Service

17 Page overview of Federal legistlation: a good starting point for understanding the law

https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/RL/95-710/23

The Fair Housing Project works to protect and expand the fair housing legal rights of classes of people traditionally subjected to housing discrimination and exclusion. As part of that mission we support state and municipal efforts to Affirmatively Further Fair Housing in order to expand the inclusiveness of housing opportunities in Vermont.

https://www.cvoeo.org/get-help/fair-housing-and-discrimination

https://www.cvoeo.org/get-help/fair-housing-and-discrimination