Kansas City Faith Blogger Ponders Redlining & Reparations

Longtime local newsman Bill Tammeus considers the history of sketchy real estate practices and how they impact our current living space . . . Here's a good starting point for his latest blog post . . . 

"All these years later — even after lending and underwriting rules were changed to forbid racial bias in mortgage lending — the Kansas City metro (and many other cities) are facing countless problems that stem from those racist old policies, which included restrictive covenants that forbade owners in certain neighborhoods from selling or even renting their homes to Blacks and others who were not white. Sometimes those restrictions also included Jewish people.

"A couple of weeks ago, the Johnson County Museum sponsored a half-day gathering to help the public — especially public officials — better understand the ways that those discriminatory practices continue to affect the entire metro area in negative ways and think about what can be done in response now."

Read more via www.TonysKansasCity.com link . . .

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