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	Podcast:		Other News
	Episode:		Walking The Red Line: A Tour Of Seattle's Discriminatory Housing Practices
	Category:		Government & Organizations
	Duration:		00:11:08
	Publish Date:		2018-06-16 12:01:00
	Description:		Real estate. It’s a hot topic in the Northwest right now. A white-hot market like Seattle’s creates winners and losers, depending on which side of the transaction you happen to be on. These days, you’d probably rather be a seller than a buyer. But back in 1985, when Merlin Rainwater and her husband bought their place, the roles were reversed. They were able to score a little bungalow on the East slope of Capitol Hill for just $50,000. “There was this wave of young white liberal activist folks who thought it would be cool to live in a neighborhood where we had black neighbors. And of course we thought it would be cool to have a cheap house,” recalls Rainwater. Needless to say, this vision of living in a perfectly integrated neighborhood didn’t play out the way Rainwater had hoped. It would take years before she would come to see her move in a different light -- as something driven by forces she wasn’t even aware of, placing her and her neighbors in a much bigger drama of social change.
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