North St. Louis needs Reparations now

North St. Louis needs Reparations now

“Overcoming the legacy of housing discrimination, disparities, and disadvantage is a steep task. All of its elements—institutional ‘redlining,’ federal housing and urban renewal policies, prevailing patterns of segregation, the racial wealth gap, local zoning and planning policies—were underwritten by massive public investments.” The St. Louis Reparations Commission wrote this about the city’s role in shaping a segregated and unequal housing lan…