The Color of Law

Municipal governments today hold around $4 trillion in outstanding debt. The growing costs of simply servicing their debt is cannibalizing their annual budgets.

More than fifty years after the Fair Housing Act, inequality and segregation persists. What went wrong?

How America gave up on housing equality.

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?

Federal housing policies contributed to the segregation of American cities in the twentieth century. But it was private interests that led the way.

How Better Homes in America—a collaboration between Herbert Hoover and the editor of a conservative women’s magazine—promoted idealized whiteness.