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which features some of the most urgent and adventurous political writing, essays, fiction,

and cultural criticism on the left today, including many authored by guests who have appeared

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great pieces that are perfect for dig listeners like you. One that you might like is

Kiyanga Yamada Taylor's predatory inclusion,

an excerpt from her new National Book Award nominated Race for Profit. You may have heard Taylor

peer on the dig, discussing Black liberation, criminal justice, Howard Zinn, or the Combahy River Collective.

In her new book, she traces the history of homeownership incentives in the late 60s,

when the 1968 Fair Housing Act offered new alternatives to the racially exclusionary zoning

and housing patterns that had previously existed for African Americans.

But Taylor writes, quote, placing homeownership at the heart of the nation's low-income housing

policies seeded outsize influence and control to the real estate industry over dwellings

intended to serve a disproportionately African-American market.

Taylor demonstrates that the real estate practices that emerged, in tandem with the fraud and

conspiracy at the heart of the Federal Housing Administration, were coercive, regressive, and

continued a pattern of racist housing policy that persists today.

Taylor writes, quote,

The assumption that a mere reversal of exclusion to inclusion would upend decades of institutional discrimination

underestimated the extent to which the housing economy was organized around race and property.

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