Even when the Bronx was burning and what my dad was seeing, people don't often talk about why. And a lot of it was Landlords [in the Bronx] were setting fire to their own buildings, sometimes with families inside, to recoup insurance costs. and because the property values were going down, because black and brown families were moving into the neighborhood and Robert Moses was building the Cross Bronx Expressway. (01:21–01:44)
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Asserts that landlords committed arson for insurance money.
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