How Housing Discrimination Works

Stuff You Should Know

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🗓️ 11 February 2021

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Owning a home in the US is a way to pass wealth down from one generation to the next and lift families into a comfortable life down the road. But there have been barriers to buying homes that Black Americans have faced from the time of slavery to today.

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0:00.0	There's so much news happening around the world that we're somehow supposed to stay on top of.
0:05.7	That's why we launched The Big Take.
0:08.3	It's a daily podcast from Bloomberg and I Heart Radio that turns down the volume a bit
0:14.0	to give you some space to think.
0:16.4	I'm Wes Kosova.
0:17.7	Each weekday I dig into one important story and talk about why it matters.
0:23.6	Listen to The Big Take on the I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen.
0:31.6	Welcome to Stuff You Should Know, a production of I Heart Radio.
0:41.2	Hey and welcome to the podcast.
0:42.9	I'm Josh Clark and there's Charles W. Chuck Bryan over there and this is Stuff You Should
0:47.6	Know, the man, oh man, the addition.
0:53.2	Do you know what I love about this topic?
0:59.4	Is that it's not just a bunch of like ranting about how we think things are and how people
1:06.2	think things are.
1:07.4	It's like so studied and statistic heavy that you can talk about how things are and then
1:14.5	say, and here's the proof.
1:16.4	Exactly.
1:17.4	Here's a lot of data to back it up.
1:18.9	It's really great.
1:19.9	I love it when they dovetail like this.
1:21.2	Now I get the impression though that when you're talking about the studying race and especially
1:27.0	in America, like you have to back it up with data like, or else people are like, oh yeah,
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