John Oliver took racist housing policies to task during his segment on Last Week Tonight.The firebrand host dove into the history of housing discrimination in the United States by detailing the noxious history of racial covenants in the South that prevented home sales to Blacks and how some of those bylaws exist to this day.Oliver pointed out how this segregation was accelerated when the federal government stepped in, with the ushering in of government programs such as the Home Owners’ Loan Corporation Act and founding of institutions like the Federal Housing Authority.The idea was to make it easier for Americans to buy homes after the Great Depression, Oliver pointed out.
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