After Uncle Sam Segregated America, Here’s How Everyday People Desegregate It

The premise of this investigation, and the inequality it uncovered, rests on the reality that America is defined by widespread residential housing segregration

Hi, I’m Aaron Sankin, and I’m a reporter here at The Markup. My beat is nominally the intersection of technology and inequality, but I’ve come to the conclusion that I’m actually a real estate reporter. A couple of years ago, I published an investigation into a piece of predictive policing software called PredPol. We analyzed over five million PredPol predictions to determine which neighborhoods were targeted most frequently by the software.

It’s not just crime prediction algorithms that disproportionately target where Black people live. An investigation I published last year showed these neighborhoods tended to get the worst deals for internet services. And when I looked at a shady auto insurance pricing scheme proposed by insurance giant Allstate, I discovered the people most likely to be harmed lived disproportionately in non-White areas.

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