The Color of Law.

<p><strong><a href="https://evepicker.com/the-color-of-law/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">BE SURE TO SEE THE SHOWNOTES AND LISTEN TO THIS EPISODE HERE</a></strong></p> <p><strong>Eve Picker:</strong> [00:00:12] Hi there. Thanks so much for joining me today for the latest episode of Impact Real Estate Investing. My guest today is Richard Rothstein, a journalist and researcher at the Economic Policy Institute. He is widely lauded as the author of 'The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America.' In this book, he explores how federal, state and local policy explicitly segregated metropolitan areas nationwide. And he argues that these policies violated the Constitution. Richard recognizes that many small steps are being taken today to remedy this, but the damage done by these housing segregation policies is so overwhelming that he believes a very big step is needed to jumpstart desegregation in a meaningful way – a new civil rights movement, one focused on housing segregation. Be sure to go to EvePicker.com to find out more about Richard on the show notes page for this episode. And be sure to sign up for my newsletter so you can access information about impact real estate investing and get the latest news about the exciting projects on my crowdfunding platform, Small Change.</p> <p> </p> <p><strong>Eve:</strong> [00:01:46] Hello, Richard, I'm really delighted to have this opportunity to talk to you today.</p> <p> </p> <p><strong>Richard Rothstein:</strong> [00:01:51] Well, thank you very much for engaging with me on this topic.</p> <p> </p> <p><strong>Eve:</strong> [00:01:54] Oh, yes, it's an important one. You're perhaps best known today for the research you've done on the history of housing segregation in the United States, and the really important book that you've written that's called 'The Color of Law.' And I've heard you say every metropolitan area in this country is residentially segregated. I'm wondering how we ended up in this very racially segregated landscape.</p> <p> </p>