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In its 1947 brief to the Supreme Court in Shelley v. Kraemer, the U.S. government cited half a dozen studies, each of which demonstrated that "[c]olored people are forced to pay higher rents and housing costs by the semi-monopoly which segregation fosters." In 1954, the FHA estimated that African Americans were overcrowded at more than four times the rate of whites and were doubled up at three times the rate of whites because of the excessive rents they were forced to pay.
The Color of Law
Richard Rothstein
This part I will do alone, leaving you behind. Don’t follow. I’m well beyond you now, and traveling very fast.
Annihilation
Jeff VanderMeer
Cars have made deer North America’s most dangerous wild animal, implicated in three times more deaths than wasps and bees, forty times more than snakes, and four hundred times more than sharks.
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