. >> public housing authorities in the federal and the state governments, purposely placed hawsing for low-income people to be concentrated in one place. this was it certainly purposeful. the whole history of how the federal and the state governments created racial segregation on purpose has largely been frontal boundary. it was once well-known, but we need to be reminded of it to understand how this came about. >> so not only how it came about, richard, but i can glean that this is not an exclusive issue to you connecticut. >> no, this is true throughout the country. all of the suburban developments that you're familiar with. panorama city in los angeles, all of these suburban developments were funded with the explicit condition that no homes be sold to african-americans, and no homes could be resoled to african-americans. this is not a unique connecticut problem. you find the same concentration of minority poverty in cleveland and detroit and baltimore and los angeles, and the san francisco bay area, in seattle and portland, chicago. throughout the country, the safely federal policie