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Zoned Out in Texas: How One Mother Overcame Dallas’s Discriminatory Housing Laws

12 Jan 2022

Patricia McGee was living in the Mandalay Palms Apartments in a rough section of Dallas a few years ago when one day her ten-year-old son said, “Momma, look.” McGee peered out the window and saw a sex worker hanging out at the bus stop in front of the apartment “doing some things she shouldn’t be doing.” 1 McGee was horrified. “Your kids, they pay attention to everything,” she says. They began “talking about stuff they ain’t got no business talking about,” she says. 2
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Authors

Richard D. Kahlenberg

Published in
United States of America