The Bronx Fire: Financial Predation, City Neglect, Community Power

Feb 10, 2022

We continue to mourn with the survivors of a catastrophic fire in the Bronx that killed eight adults and nine children on January 9th, 2022. Barnard students and alums are among the people who lost relatives and neighbors in a disaster that rippled beyond New York and throughout communities living with the realities of precarious […]

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anti-poor, housing justice, housing policy, racism
Event Oval, The Diana Center, 3009 Broadway, New York, NY 10027
Mar 9, 2020 | 6:30PM

[CANCELED] Race for Profit: How the Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership

Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, Assistant Professor & Charles H. Mcilwain University Preceptor Department of African American Studies

Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor’s new book Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership (UNC Press 2019) uncovers how the the story of the end of housing discrimination through the prohibition of redlining in the late 1960s and early 1970s belies the continuation of exploitative real estate practices and a new, disasterous phenomenon of predatory inclusion.

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foreclosure, housing discrimination, housing policy, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership