Not in My Neighborhood

Eugenics, racial thinking, and white supremacist attitudes influenced even the federal government’s actions toward housing in the 20th century, dooming American cities to ghettoization. The Federal Housing Administration continued discriminatory housing policies even into the 1960s, long after civil rights legislation. This all-American tale is told through the prism of Baltimore, from its early suburbanization in the 1880s to the consequences of white flight after World War II, and into the first decade of the twenty-first century. The events are real, and so are the heroes and villains. Mr. Pietila’s narrative centers on the human side of residential real estate practices, whose discriminatory tools were the same everywhere: restrictive covenants, redlining, blockbusting, predatory lending.Additional ISBNs: 1566638437, 9781566638432Not in My Neighborhood is written by Pietila, Antero and published by Ivan R. Dee. The Digital and eTextbook ISBNs for Not in My Neighborhood are 9781566639002, 9781566639637, 1566639638 and the print ISBNs are 9781566639002, 156663900X