IDEAS | NOAH Y. KIM
Housing will test white support for Black lives
Increasing the housing supply for Black Americans would be one of the quickest and most effective ways to bring about a more just society. 

But efforts to fix this problem by building affordable housing in suburban communities and affluent parts of cities have often been met with anger from white residents worried about “density” and “crowding.”

White progressives in particular have a long history of refusing to integrate their communities, even as they vocally support civil rights movements.

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