LinkLinksOpinion Diego Zuluaga in The Post: A tool meant to help minorities buy homes is instead speeding up gentrification in D.C. By Editor On Aug 9, 2019 Last updated Aug 9, 2019 25 Share More than 50 years after the passage of comprehensive anti-discrimination legislation, American cities remain highly segregated. The nation’s capital is a glaring example: The D.C. area’s African American residents are concentrated in the Northwest D.C. neighborhoods of Brightwood, 16th Street Heights and Petworth — and, above all, in Northeast D.C. and east of the Anacostia River, where 25 census tracts (the U.S. Census Bureau’s geographic subdivisions) have African American population shares exceeding 90 percent. 25 Share FacebookTwitterReddItWhatsAppEmailPrint
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