Civics 101
Civics 101
NHPR
The Government and Housing: Policy
25 minutes Posted Jan 31, 2023 at 10:00 am.
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"Public housing" did not exist prior to the Great Depression. So it wasn't until Franklin Delano Roosevelt's New Deal that the government had the chance to impose segregation at the highest level. The effects of segregation policy in housing continue to this day in the United States. Akira Drake Rodriguez and Richard Rothstein are our guides to how and why the government did it.

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