Living in a poor neighborhood changes everything about your life
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In 1940, a white developer wanted to build a neighborhood in Detroit.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
1. What racist policies caused2. Nothing has changed
3. Is it that bad?
4. Brain, health, and happiness
5. Experiment: Let them move
6. Solutions
So he asked the US Federal Housing Administration to back a loan. The FHA, which was created just six years earlier to help middle-class families buy homes, said no because the development was too close to an "inharmonious" racial group.
Meaning black people.
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