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Written by Blake Girardot on 2024-09-13 at 17:22

"Plundered: How Racist Policies Undermine Black Homeownership in America" will be released on Jan. 28, 2025. But, you can pre-order the book TODAY here:

https://bernadetteatuahene.com/plundered/

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Written by Blake Girardot on 2024-09-13 at 17:23

"When Professor Bernadette Atuahene moved to Detroit, she planned to study the city’s squatting phenomenon. What she accidentally found was too urgent to ignore. Her neighbors, many of whom had owned their homes for decades, were losing them to property tax foreclosure, leaving once bustling Black neighborhoods blighted with vacant homes."

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Written by Blake Girardot on 2024-09-13 at 17:46

From Prof. Atuahene:

"I have been living in Detroit for eight years, researching the city's property tax foreclosure crisis, which has resulted in the government confiscating one in three homes since 2009: the greatest number of property tax foreclosures in American history since the Great Depression. Plundered reveals the core problem is a system of predatory governance, where public officials raise public dollars through racist policies, a nationwide practice in no way limited to Detroit."

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