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Joyce Beatty: “If you go back to 1966, in Chicago with the Housing Authority and HUD was sued for alleging that public housing had been…”

On the recordMarch 23, 2021
If you go back to 1966, in Chicago with the Housing Authority and HUD was sued for alleging that public housing had been built purposefully to keep Black families segregated from the White neighborhoods.
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Joyce Beatty
Democratic · Ohio

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Beatty references historical segregation issues in public housing.

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