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Book Discussion: Race for Profit by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

Join LA Forward Institute’s Housing Justice Reading Group as we read Race for Profit by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, with a virtual discussion space about the book on Sunday, September 10th.

Race for Profit uncovers how exploitative real estate practices continued well after housing discrimination was banned. The same racist structures and individuals remained intact after redlining’s end, and close relationships between regulators and the industry created incentives to ignore improprieties.

Narrating the story of a sea-change in housing policy and its dire impact on African Americans, Race for Profit reveals how the urban core was transformed into a new frontier of cynical extraction.

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Earlier Event: September 6
LA Forward Institute CD-10 Candidate Forum
Later Event: September 14
Report Forward Live: The Latest on Independent Redistricting + Council Expansion

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