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Mon Jan 7, 2019, 10:11 AM Jan 2019

Warren leans towards reparations for redlining in Des Moines Q&A

https://www.c-span.org/video/?456660-1/senator-elizabeth-warren-makes-visit-iowa&start=414

It's 31 minutes in, when she gets a question on housing inequality.

It was official government policy to redline African American neighborhoods and prevent them from participating in housing wealth

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We need to take a first step towards rectifying the wrongs of the past and help people in formerly redlined neighborhoods to be able to buy homes."
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Warren leans towards reparations for redlining in Des Moines Q&A (Original Post) Recursion Jan 2019 OP
Why you have to love Elizabeth... esply her instincts for economic equality & fundamental fairness. InAbLuEsTaTe Jan 2019 #1

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