Family Properties: Race Real Estate, and the Exploitation of Black Urban America

This monumental work takes on family accounts and urban history of postwar Chicago as a city in crisis due to discriminatory practices of the banking industry and federal policies that created the country’s shameful “dual housing market.” This is the story of how the author’s father launched a crusade against the profiteers. This powerful book with riveting accounts reveals the true reason for the city’s segregated slums (spoiler alert: it’s the widespread institutionalized system of legal and financial exploitation).

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