details matter Elizabeth Warren has a plan to reform "Heirs' Property," which allows wealthy white property developers to steal Black family homes Cory Doctorow
torrens act Heirs' property: how southern states allow white land developers to steal reconstruction-era land from Black families Cory Doctorow
reverse mortgages Reverse mortgages: subprime's "stealth aftershock" that is costing elderly African-Americans their family homes Cory Doctorow
great migration The story of how Buffalo's oldest, best-established Black neighborhood was literally wiped off the map is a perfect parable about systemic bias — UPDATED Cory Doctorow
new feudalism California home-buyers are increasingly reliant on parental gifts to afford their down-payments Cory Doctorow
partition sales How an obscure law allowed white, rich developers to steal African-Americans' land for a century Cory Doctorow
meritocracy is a comforting delusion Multigenerational wealth makes white Americans richer than black Americans Cory Doctorow
great man theory of history Robert Moses wove enduring racism into New York's urban fabric Cory Doctorow
Asymmetric warfare Data-driven look at America's brutal, racist debt-collection machine Cory Doctorow
