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Building Justice: How to Undesign the Decades of Racial Redlining that Scar U.S. Cities

By April de Simone, Braden Crooks, Charles Chawalko and Gregory Jost | October 31, 2016

We must vehemently reject the basic assumptions of Redlining: that some are inherently more valuable and have more to offer society than others. It will require more than patches or policy fixes. We need an intentionally transformational approach.

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