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

Beryl Satter

How did predatory housing practices in Chicago make Black families pay a heavy price for being Black?

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Author
Beryl Satter

Why read it

  • You will understand how a hidden race tax made Black families in segregated neighborhoods pay more for homes, food and auto insurance
  • You will see how the subprime mortgage crisis echoes the earlier exploitation, since subprime describes a type of loan, not a type of borrower
  • You will learn how ordinary residents organized to fight back, through the Contract Buyers League

Who it is for

  • Homebuyer or renter who wants to understand housing discrimination
  • Reader tracing the roots of the subprime crisis
  • Chicagoan curious about the history of their neighborhood

Contents

  1. INTRODUCTION
  2. PART I
  3. ONE
  4. JEWISH LAWNDALE
  5. TWO
  6. THE NOOSE AROUND BLACK CHICAGO
  7. THREE
  8. JUSTICE IN CHICAGO
  9. FOUR
  10. REFORM—ILLINOIS-STYLE
  11. FIVE
  12. THE LIBERAL MOMENT AND THE DEATH OF A RADICAL
  13. PART II
  14. SIX
  15. KING IN CHICAGO
  16. SEVEN
  17. THE STORY OF A BUILDING
  18. EIGHT
  19. ORGANIZING LAWNDALE
  20. NINE
  21. THE BIG HOLDOUT
  22. TEN
  23. THE FEDERAL TRIALS
  24. CONCLUSION

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