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Benjamin Herold's Disillusioned: Five Families and the Unraveling of America's Suburbs


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For generations, upwardly mobile white families have extracted opportunity from the nation’s heavily subsidized suburbs, then moved on before the bills for maintenance and repair came due, leaving the mostly Black and Brown families who followed to clean up the ensuing mess. Peter and Orlando are joined by author Benjamin Herold to discover the vicious cycle undermining the dreams upon which American suburbia was built.
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Narrative EdgeBy Georgia Public Broadcasting