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GabrielF00 on Jan 11, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: East of Palo Alto’s Eden

Would you consider redlining or housing covenants that restricted particular groups to be policies that were "enforced at the point of a gun"? Both were contributing factors to segregation.

yummyfajitas on Jan 11, 2015 [–]

As I understand it, the government required banks to redline. So yes. Housing covenants were probably not, but I don't know the details.

Similarly, much as I dislike them, the "No Students, Foreigners or Bachelors" restrictions imposed by most housing societies near me are voluntary.

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