Mon. Feb. 7 at 10 p.m. on WKAR-HD 23.1 & STREAMING | Exposé on how the American housing policy market has been manipulated for years in discriminatory ways.
Is the “American Dream” of home ownership a false promise? While the government’s postwar housing policy created the world’s largest middle class, it also set America on two divergent paths – one of perceived wealth and the other of systematically defunded, segregated communities.
The crash of suburbia and urban unrest are not unrelated phenomena. They are a result of the United States’ racist housing policies, which have created vulnerable subcultures in our build environments. Throughout the film, it becomes clear that society cannot continue in a segregated state. Ultimately, the contrasting communities created by the country’s housing history may have more in common with each other than they expect.
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