For most Americans, housing was a key component in personal wealth accumulation. However, racist housing policies eroded black wealth in pre-WWII American cities. Black families paid a 28% premium to buy a home on a majority white block, after which their homes lost 10% of their value.
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mass incarceration (longer and more severe sentences as a way to compensate for under-policing) * [https://direct.mit.edu/ajle/article/doi/10.1162/ajle\_a\_00030/112647/THE-INJUSTICE-OF-UNDER-POLICING-IN-AMERICA1](https://direct.mit.edu/ajle/article/doi/10.1162/ajle_a_00030/112647/THE-INJUSTICE-OF-UNDER-POLICING-IN-AMERICA1) Understaffed police departments also tend to employ more violence. We can look