A 'Forgotten History' Of How The U.S. Government Segregated AmericawhytheracecardisplayedMay 8, 20191 min readUpdated: May 3, 2023Rated NaN out of 5 stars.#housingThe government's efforts were "primarily designed to provide housing to white, middle-class, lower-middle-class families," he says. African-Americans and other people of color were left out of the new suburban communities — and pushed instead into urban housing projects. The Federal Housing Administration's justification was that if African-Americans bought homes in these suburbs, or even if they bought homes near these suburbs, the property values of the homes they were insuring, the white homes they were insuring, would decline. And therefore their loans would be at risk.
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