Tom Angotti

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Tom Angotti is professor emeritus at Hunter College and The Graduate Center at the City University of New York. He is author of New York For Sale: Community Planning Confronts Global Real Estate, Zoned Out! and other books on planning and urban development.
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Fair Housing at 50: At the Root, It’s Still Race Over Place

September 17, 2018 | Tom Angotti

We should have known better. The Kerner Commission taught us that race matters most, not place. But it also embedded in our psyches the equation of Black = central city and the similarly absolute equation of white = suburbs.