{"pk":65458,"title":"Blockbusting in Washington D.C. Migration and Home Sale Patterns","subtitle":null,"abstract":"After the disbandment of racially restrictive covenants post 1948, Washington D.C. experiencedevents of “blockbusting”. These events influenced a racial turnover known as “white flight”.This study aims to analyze blockbusting by mapping migration and home sale patterns from1948 to 1971 within 8 blocks and a total of 454 lots in Petworth, Washington D.C. (census tract21.02). Using a thirteen-statement inquiry, housing deeds from the District of ColumbiaRecorder of Deeds were examined to capture migration and home sale patterns of blockbusting.59 out of 454 lots were sampled, with a total of 118 resales, which demonstrated that the sampleresembled similar migration and home sale patterns. Two real estate institutions, Ralph D CohnINC (RDCI) and Sindler Realty Corporation (SRC), appeared numerous times in the sample andwere investigated, which revealed historical archives, newspapers and lawsuits related toblockbusting and racial turnover practices.","language":"en","license":null,"keywords":[],"section":"Social Sciences","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7bg7v725","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Mark Anthony","middle_name":"","last_name":"Rivas","name_suffix":"","institution":"","department":""}],"date_submitted":"2021-12-02T19:29:24Z","date_accepted":"2021-12-02T19:29:24Z","date_published":"2021-12-02T08:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/ucm_mwp_ucmurj/article/65458/galley/50114/download/"}]}