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Biden Administration Recognizes the Legacy of Housing Discrimination
In a memorandum, the President acknowledged the federal government s role in patterns of segregation and disinvestment that continue to affect communities of color across the country. February 10, 2021, 6am PST | Diana Ionescu |
President Biden s acknowledgement of the federal government s central role in creating and perpetuating today’s patterns of racial segregation, neighborhood disinvestment, housing insecurity, and racial wealth gaps takes an important step toward advancing racial equality in housing. Biden s recent actions recognize that facing the facts about our history is a necessary step toward long-overdue healing and provides the foundation for urgently needed policy changes, write Margery Austin Turner, Solomon Greene, and Martha M. Galvez, for the Urban Institute.
The Biden administration has made the issue of housing inequality a priority, acknowledging the role of federal, state and local governments in creating and implementing racist housing policies over the years. Margery Austin Turner, Institute Fellow, Urban Institute, joins Hari Sreenivasan to discuss the impact of these policies and the importance of the Biden administration’s recognition of the same.
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Hari Sreenivasan:
While local communities and states like Connecticut grapple with long-standing issues of housing inequality, the new Biden administration has announced it will also make this issue a priority.
On Tuesday, President Biden released a memorandum on redressing our nation s and the federal government s history of discriminatory housing practices and policies. It included a frank acknowledgement that during the 20th century, federal, state, and local governments systemically implemented racially discriminatory housing policies that contribu