Race and Home Ownership

Owning your own home - it's the American dream. For many Black and Brown people it was a dream deferred because of laws that allowed redlining of neighborhoods and discrimination in lending. Today, housing discrimination is against the law, but reality tells a different story. It's a cautionary tale of one African American homeowner who's appraisal more than doubled once she removed her race from the equation. And lest you think her's is an isolated case, wait til you hear the result of the Devaluation of Black Home Ownership study by the Brookings Institution. Our guests include homeowner Carlette Duffy; Andre M. Perry, Senior Fellow with the Brookings Metropolitan Policy Program; and Amy Nelson, Executive Director, Fair Housing Center of Central Indiana.