Black families were overcharged somewhere between $3.2 billion and $4 billion (in 2019 dollars) in Chicago alone, researchers have found. (Photo: Bloomberg)
(Bloomberg Opinion) –One question is — or should be — central to any assessment of the state of America: Why, more than a century and a half after slavery ended, does the typical black family remain so much poorer than the typical white family?
A new study on housing in Chicago illustrates a big part of the answer: Generation after generation, the U.S. system of real-estate finance has enriched whites at the expense of blacks.
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