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Thu Sep 10

Community land trusts could help heal segregated cities

Written by Mark Roseland, Professor of Community Resources and Development, Arizona State University

Efforts to build wealth for Black Americans could focus on property ownership.Matt McClain/The Washington Post via Getty Images

American cities represent part of the nation’s long and grim history of discrimination and oppression against Black people. They can also be part of the recovery from all that harm.

Some cities’ work can be...

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