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Gene Slater
Gene Slater, a senior adviser to federal, state, and local agencies on affordable housing for more than 40 years, is the author of
Freedom to Discriminate: How Realtors Conspired to Segregate Housing and Divide America
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The Atlantic
The Inventors of America’s Most Dangerous Idea
Freedom
was once a rallying cry for justice, but the country’s Realtors had a better use for it.
Gene Slater
November 29, 2021