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Okay, folks, this episode is kind of a break from coronavirus news that's been dominating this feed and other places.

It's a really fascinating interview I conducted with Andre Perry, the scholar of the Brookings Institution, and he's been doing work on the sort of devaluation of black owned assets and assets located in African-American neighborhoods.

He's got sort of two great series on this one about real estate, one about small businesses.

I learned a ton about the world, but also about my actual community and the neighborhood that I live in and the kind of forces shaping the world all around us.

I learned a lot. Check this one out.

Hello, welcome to another episode of the Weeds on the Vux Media Podcast Network. I'm Matthew Glacias. My guest today, Andre Perry is a fellow at the Brookings Institution.

He's the author of the forthcoming book, Know Your Price, and the author of a couple recent great reports that I'd read on a fascinating subject.

The most recent one of them that I saw, it's about, I don't know how you were putting it, but it looks at the gill previews in African-American versus white neighborhoods.

And it shows how business quality essentially is devalued in black neighborhoods.

That's right. The thrust of my work, I'm looking at assets in black majority cities.

There's this narrative that the state of black majority cities are a direct result of the behaviors of the residents in them.

And so a lot of my work goes into looking at structural issues that cause lower prices on homes, lower ratings for services.

And so this business report that we just put out looking at the devaluation of businesses and black neighborhoods falls in that vein.

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