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CityLab Daily: America's Vanishing City Accents
Also: Trump’s long war on welfare, and the fight to improve housing choices for the poor.
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Long time coming: President Donald Trump’s hostility to welfare dates back at least as far back as 1973, when the Justice Department sued him and his father over alleged violations of the Fair Housing Act. Writing a decade after the racial discrimination suit, the future president explained, “What we didn’t do was rent to welfare cases, white or black.”