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Laura Lambert

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NOT JUST A HOME

Turns Out, Fair Housing Isn’t Always Fair

Fair housing was a drumbeat of civil rights, but were the gains made in the '60s too little too late?

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WHITE PICKET FENCE

The Postwar Housing Boom Wasn't All Sunshine and Roses

Suburban America was built on an ideal that explicitly excluded many Americans. Though the policies that led to this are in the past, the results remain today.

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