Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership

Hill, Laura Warren

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“…This restricted homeownership opportunities in these areas and led to a heavy reliance on land contracts in which the buyer would pay the owner directly. Without the safety net offered through mortgages, if a buyer was unable to make a payment on time, they could be evicted and lose any equity they had built in their home 42 . Land contracts were also more expensive.…”

Section: Access To Housingmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Without the safety net offered through mortgages, if a buyer was unable to make a payment on time, they could be evicted and lose any equity they had built in their home. 42 Land contracts were also more expensive. A 2019 study of the Chicago area during the time redlining maps were widely used showed that on average, Black Americans were paying $587 more per month (in 2019 dollars) for their home compared to those who had conventional mortgages.…”

Section: Access To Housingmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Without Affordable, Accessible, and Adequate Housing, Health Has No Foundation

Mehdipanah

2023

Milbank Quarterly

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Today's housing disparities are rooted in the increasing commodification of housing that has taken precedence over the need for shelter, a basic human right. With rising housing costs across the country, more residents are finding their monthly income going to rent, mortgage payments, property taxes, and utilities, leaving little for food and medication. Housing is a determinant of health, and with increasing housing disparities, action must be taken to ensure no individual is displaced, communities remain intact, and cities continue to thrive.

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Section: Access To Housingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Access To Housingmentioning

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Without Affordable, Accessible, and Adequate Housing, Health Has No Foundation

Mehdipanah

2023

Milbank Quarterly

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“…Senegalese migrants could send remittances and enhance the quality of life of their loved ones who remained behind. At the same time that these classmates envisioned, according to Kareem, a path to home ownership in Senegal, African Americans in the USA were often unable to purchase their own homes because of redlining, predatory lending and other racist practices (Taylor 2019).…”

Section: Assumptions and Expectations Of Diaspora Black Muslimsmentioning

confidence: 99%

From American to Cisse: Sufism and the remaking of diasporic ties across the Atlantic

Rahman

2023

Africa

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Since the 1980s, hundreds of predominantly working-class African-American Muslims have travelled or relocated to the rural yet renowned city of Medina Baye, Senegal. They were invited there by Shaykh Hassan Cisse, a Senegalese Islamic scholar and leader in the Tijani tariqa (Sufi order). This article focuses on the experiences of African-American and fellow diaspora Black Muslims living and learning with African Muslims in the Tijani hub of Medina Baye. It interrogates the assumptions, expectations and misunderstandings that characterize relationships between the two groups. I argue that, as members of the Tijani tariqa, diaspora Black disciples become integrated within the local system of collective care modelled by African disciples. Complicating analyses of African–diasporic exchanges that tend to differentiate and hierarchize the interconnected economic hardships facing diaspora Black and continental African communities, I argue that the relationship between these groups illustrates the role of Shaykh Ibrahim Niasse’s branch of the Tijani tariqa as a counterhegemonic social movement offering new paradigms of social and economic reciprocity that enable Black Muslims on both sides of the Atlantic to mitigate the contemporary impacts of racial capitalism and global apartheid.

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“…Thus, a regional rent gap was produced in which the housing pressure put on the region by the technology industry exacerbates longer histories of segregated and racist housing policies. This history includes racist housing covenants and practices of redlining that later gave way to “predatory inclusion” (Taylor 2019), creating a racially segregated housing regime at the regional level (Schafran 2018). Presently, the region is undergoing a re‐segregation through tech‐led gentrification and real estate speculation (Maharawal and McElroy 2018; Schafran 2021).…”

Section: The Tech Economy the Housing Crisis And Regional Transportationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…As Stein (2019) argues, because real estate markets are plural (cf. Taylor 2019), building for the top of the market does little to reduce demand at the bottom. The fight against new market rate developments by housing organisations, such as the Housing Rights Committee of San Francisco, the San Francisco Tenant Union, Cuasa Justa:Just Cause, and Our Mission No Eviction, and the statewide coalition Tenants Together, went alongside other campaigns to address the housing crisis.…”

Section: The Tech Economy the Housing Crisis And Regional Transportationmentioning

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Infrastructural Activism: Google Bus Blockades, Affective Politics, and Environmental Gentrification in San Francisco

Maharawal

2021

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Between 2013 and 2018, the San Francisco Bay Area saw the rise of “Google bus blockades”—a form of protest against gentrification, growing inequality and a housing crisis linked to the economic impacts of the technology sector on the region. Based on two years of ethnographic fieldwork with housing activists in the San Francisco Bay Area, this article argues that the disruptive tactic of “the Google Bus blockade” can be understood as a form of infrastructural activism—a flexible political form that uses the interruption of infrastructure for political ends. The blockades politicised the “Google buses” and transformed them into symbols of gentrification and sites of resistance. Protestors constructed a political analysis that drew connections between struggles for housing, racial and environmental justice and brought together material, affective and political critiques of infrastructure.

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Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership

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Without Affordable, Accessible, and Adequate Housing, Health Has No Foundation

Without Affordable, Accessible, and Adequate Housing, Health Has No Foundation

From American to Cisse: Sufism and the remaking of diasporic ties across the Atlantic

Infrastructural Activism: Google Bus Blockades, Affective Politics, and Environmental Gentrification in San Francisco

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