Author: By Arlene Miles
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Colorado Springs Gazette: Don’t restore racist housing discrimination
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Colorado’s housing crisis hurts the poor, whether they are Black or white. It wasn’t always like that. Before the federal Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Fair Housing Act of 1968, we had rampant race-based housing discrimination. Merely affording a home wasn’t enough. One often had to look a certain way. Real estate agents…


