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'Housing Is Everybody’s Problem'

The forgotten crusade of Morris Milgram.
by Amanda Kolson Hurley via Places Journal on October 10, 2017

The Disturbing History of the Suburbs

Redlining: the racist housing policy from the Jim Crow era that still affects us today.
via Adam Ruins Everything on October 4, 2017
Drawing of someone holding a photo of a Black family in front of a suburban home, and lighting the photo on fire.

America’s Shameful History of Housing Discrimination

The practice of “redlining” kept people of color from home loans for decades.
by Jamie Hibdon via The Nib on September 25, 2017

When the Idea of Home Was Key to American Identity

From log cabins to Gilded Age mansions, how you lived determined where you belonged.
by Richard White via What It Means to Be American on September 11, 2017

The Deeper Problem Behind the Sale of a Posh San Francisco Street

The news that a posh San Francisco street was sold for delinquent taxes exposes the deeper issue with America’s local revenue system.
by Brent Cebul via CityLab on August 18, 2017

Closet Archive

A stuffed history of the closet, where the “past becomes space.”
by Shannon Mattern via Places Journal on July 1, 2017

The Racial Segregation of American Cities Was Anything But Accidental

A housing policy expert explains how federal government policies created the suburbs and the inner city.
by Richard Rothstein, Katie Nodjimbadem via Smithsonian on May 30, 2017

Home in a Can

When trailers offered a compact version of the American dream.
by Lisa Hix, Mike Closen via Collectors Weekly on May 16, 2017
Picture of a suburban neighborhood.

The Suburban Horror of the Indian Burial Ground

In the 1970s and 1980s, homeowners were terrified by the idea that they didn't own the land they'd just bought.
by Colin Dickey via The New Republic on October 19, 2016
Redlining map for Decatur, Illinois
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Mapping Inequality: Redlining in New Deal America

In the 1930s, the federal government created redlining maps for almost every major U.S. city. Explore those maps and their contexts in a brand new version of this project.
by N. D. B. Connolly, Robert K. Nelson, LaDale Winling, Justin Madron, Todd Michney, Richard Marciano, J. S. Hoffman, Helen C. S. Meier via American Panorama on October 12, 2016
Map of Minneapolis showing density and locations of restrictive covenenants

Mapping Prejudice

Racial covenants and housing discrimination in 20th century Minneapolis.
via University of Minnesota on June 1, 2016

That World Is Gone: Race and Displacement in a Southern Town

The story of Vinegar Hill, a historically African American neighborhood in Charlottesville, Virginia.
via Field Studio on May 9, 2011
White settlers traveling west in Conestoga wagons.

America as Filibuster Society

American expansionism goes beyond territory.
by Nick Burns via American Affairs on August 20, 2024
Hand throwing crumpled dollar bills into pile

Extravagances of Neoliberalism

On how the fringe ideas of a set of American neoliberals became a new and pervasive way of life.
by Melinda Cooper, Benjamin Kunkel via The Baffler on May 13, 2024
Black mother and son in front of their suburban house.

The Family Photographs That Helped Us Investigate How a University Displaced a Black Community

A longtime resident of Shoe Lane chronicled the life of his community as it was demolished by Christopher Newport University. His photographs helped a reporter seek accountability.
by Logan Jaffe via ProPublica on April 23, 2024
Row of suburban homes.

White America Facing Its Ghosts

The slow unraveling of a nation’s suburbs.
by Benjamin Herold via Literary Hub on January 23, 2024
A small farmworker house in Ventura with children playing outside.

Reimagining Resistance, Reconstructing Community

Farmworker housing cooperatives in Ventura County, California.
by Frank P. Barajas via Tropics of Meta on January 12, 2024
Residents of the United States' first government-built planned "utopian" community in Greenbelt.

Greenbelt, Future Home of the FBI, was Planned as a New Deal ‘Utopia’

Greenbelt was designed in 1935 as a community created, built, populated and even furnished entirely by the federal government. Now the FBI is set to move in.
by Petula Dvorak via Retropolis on November 18, 2023
Book cover of "Before the Movement" by Dylan C. Penningroth

What the Conventional Narrative Gets Wrong About the Civil Rights Movement

A new book illuminates how Black Americans used property ownership, common law and other methods to assert their rights.
by Matt Delmont via Washington Post on September 26, 2023
Deborah Taylor Mapp at her home in the Broad Creek neighborhood of Norfolk, Va.

The Long History of Universities Displacing Black People

The expansion of higher education in Virginia uprooted hundreds of black families.
by Louis Hansen via The Chronicle of Higher Education on September 11, 2023
Myrlie Evers-Williams sitting at a table, and a police photo on the wall above a bullet hole.

Medgar Evers Battled for Civil Rights. His Home Shows What It Cost Him.

NAACP leader Medgar Evers was assassinated 60 years ago. His wife, the activist Myrlie Evers-Williams, has fought for his civil rights legacy ever since.
by DeNeen L. Brown via Retropolis on June 11, 2023
From left to right, Langston Hughes with Charles S. Johnson; E. Franklin Frazier; Rudolph Fisher and Hubert T. Delaney.

Why Harlem? Considering the Site of “Civil Rights by Copyright,” 100 Years Later

The confluence of Black modernity, self-determinism, and belongingness of Harlem's housing.
by Bo McMillan via Literary Hub on February 13, 2023
Fall/Winter 1957 Sears catalog page spread of men's work clothes.

Before Folding 30 Years Ago, the Sears Catalog Sold Some Surprising Products

The retail giant’s mail-order business reigned supreme for more than a century, offering everything from quack cures to ready-to-build homes.
by Leo DeLuca via Smithsonian on January 26, 2023
Traffic moves along the Interstate 76 in Philadelphia.
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We Mythologize Highways, But They’ve Damaged Communities of Color

Planners of the Interstate Highway System ignored warnings that they were damaging poor Black and Latino neighborhoods.
by Ryan Reft via Made By History on January 19, 2023
Redlining map from the 1930s

The Tyranny Of The Map: Rethinking Redlining

In trying to understand one of the key aspects of structural racism, have we constructed a new moralistic story that obscures more than it illuminates?
by Robert Gioielli via The Metropole on November 3, 2022
Shoppers in the indoor mall at the 1000 block of North Nogales Avenue

What Asian Immigrants, Seeking the American Dream, Found in Southern California Suburbs

How new arrivals remade the east San Gabriel Valley — and assimilated in it.
by James Zarsadiaz via Los Angeles Times on October 17, 2022
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Redlining is Only Part of the Story

An annotated collection of resources from the Bunk archive that help explain the long history of housing discrimination.
by Julian Maxwell Hayter on October 5, 2022
Photograph of an African American woman standing on her front porch.

America’s Oldest Black Town Is Trapped Between Rebuilding and Retreating

In Princeville, what’s at stake is not just one town’s survival but a unique window into American history.
by Jake Bittle via Gizmodo on September 21, 2022
A vacant home surrounded by a chain link fence is seen in Los Angeles, February 16, 2010.

Why Obama-Era Economists Are So Mad About Student Debt Relief

It exposes their failed mortgage debt relief policies after the Great Recession.
by David Dayen, Lindsay Owens via The American Prospect on August 31, 2022
Picture of the apartment buildings within Co-op City sit along the banks of the Hutchinson River in the Bronx.
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Could Cooperative Housing Solve Today’s Affordability Crisis?

Housing costs are skyrocketing. History offers a path forward.
by Annemarie Sammartino via Made By History on August 24, 2022
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