How realtors broke America

Fair-housing advocate Gene Slater on how brokers co-opted the 1960s language of freedom to entrench segregation and fuel division

Think of the last time you saw homes with a real-estate broker. Did they call you back? Did they follow up? Which neighborhoods did they nudge you toward, or away from? Did they assume, without you saying so, that you’d prefer to be around people who look like you? In the process, did you get your own home appraised? How did the value they arrived at co…