![]() ![]() Satter are never at war with each other” in Family Properties. But “the historian and the storyteller in Ms. Her father, Mark Satter, was a white lawyer in Chicago who loudly did battle with discriminatory housing practices before his death, at 49, in 1965. ![]() ![]() To hang on, families rented out parts of their homes and themselves became exploitative landlords.įor Satter, this is a personal story, said Dwight Garner in The New York Times. Exorbitant fees were often tacked on, and a single late payment was grounds for instant eviction. ![]() Speculators filled the vacuum in those areas, selling buildings at inflated prices to black buyers willing to sign onerous contracts. Unlike other Americans, blacks couldn’t borrow from a bank because the Federal Housing Administration would not provide mortgage insurance for homes in neighborhoods where even a handful of blacks lived. A half-century ago, she says, the typical African-American couple hoping to buy a home confronted a system that was seemingly engineered to destroy family and community. It’s no mystery how America’s black urban slums came to be, says historian Beryl Satter. ![]()
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