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The Epic of Collier Heights

99% Invisible

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Black Home Buyers in Atlanta

The city had carved up downtown atlanta into residential districts that were zoned by race. The federal government wouldn't guarantee loans to black families, insisting they'd cause property values in white neighborhoods to tank. On the rare occasion black home buyers did break through, things could get ugly.

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