This report is part of a series <[link removed]> of research that will evaluate the historical (and contemporary) injustices within the economy, housing, and our democracy—and recommend policy solutions to put the U.S. on a pathway towards reconciliation.
Systemic Inequality: Displacement, Exclusion, and Segregation

Center for American Progress
How America's Housing System Undermines Wealth Building in Communities of Color
By Danyelle Solomon, Connor Maxwell, and Abril Castro

Homeownership and high-quality affordable rental housing are critical tools for wealth building and financial well-being in the United States.

Knowing this, American lawmakers have long sought to secure land for, reduce barriers to, and expand the wealth-building capacity of property ownership and affordable rental housing.

But these efforts have almost exclusively benefited white households.

This report examines how government-sponsored displacement, exclusion, and segregation have exacerbated racial inequality in the United States. <[link removed]>

While homeownership and affordable rental housing are not panaceas for addressing entrenched structural inequality, it is clear that lawmakers must make amends for past and present harms inflicted on communities of color in the U.S. housing system.

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More On Systematic Racism:
Interactive: Simulating How Progressive Proposals Affect the Racial Wealth Gap <[link removed]>
Part 1: Truth and Reconciliation <[link removed]>
Part 2: Systematic Inequality and Economic Opportunity <[link removed]>
Part 3: Systematic Inequality and American Democracy <[link removed]>

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Racism and Sexism Combine To Shortchange Working Black Women
By Jocelyn Frye

Today is Black Women’s Equal Pay Day, marking the estimated number of extra months—roughly eight months—that a Black woman working full-time year-round in the United States must work into the current year to have earned what her white male counterpart earned during the prior year.

This year, Black women have had to work well into the month of August to catch up to the wages that white men earned in 2018 alone. <[link removed]>

Disparities in Black women’s wages stem from a mix of interconnected factors, including the devaluing of the work that Black women do, the prevalence of entrenched biases rooted in race and gender bias, perceptions about the relative importance of certain types of work, occupational segregation, resistance to structural change, and more.

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