The Housing Crisis’ Racist Roots

Miles Kampf-Lassin

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Laura Gottesdiener, author of “A Dream Foreclosed: Black America and the Fight for a Place to Call Home,” discusses the impact of the housing crisis on African Americans and the ways communities are fighting back through creative means to bring justice and declare the human right to housing. In this appearance on Democracy Now! Gottesdiener explains how the banks “pushed the worst of the worst loans in these communities that everyone knew were unpayable debts—that Wall Street knew.”

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Miles Kampf-Lassin is Senior Editor at In These Times. Follow him at @MilesKLassin

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