Gene Slater ‘83

Gene’s book, Freedom to Discriminate: How Realtors Conspired to Segregate Housing and Divide America, released in September, has earned a prominent spot among the list of recent books uncovering the history and persistence of racist housing policies in the United States. The book focuses on how realtors organizations, especially in California became helped the discrimination of federal policies become common practice.

Planetizen named Freedom to Discriminate one of its top ten urban planning books of 2021. Read why they chose it.

Read Gene’s piece in the Atlantic, “The Inventors of America’s Most Dangerous Idea”