Believe it or not, there was a time when the US government built beautiful homes for working-class Americans to deal with a housing crisis (theconversation.com)

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[-] [email protected] 10 points 2 weeks ago

yeah the Federal Housing Administration actively discriminated against black people and other minorities. the new deal brought white flight suburbs and redlining.

https://retroreport.org/video/whites-only-suburbs-how-the-new-deal-shut-out-black-homebuyers/

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