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>Never before had such a plan—known as “fiscal equalization”—been tried at the metropolitan level.

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/03/the-mira...

tldr: the twin cities tax businesses and put the money into low income communities to prevent crime, and in the 70s and 80s, 70% of subsidized units were built in the wealthiest white districts, to prevent ghettos from forming.

parent basch 10 years ago

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