I wrote a very lengthy and thorough piece entitled HGTV: What Home Improvement Programming Tells Us about Race, Redlining, and the American Dream : https://medium.com/@popcultureconnections/hgtv-what-home-improvement-programming-tells-us-about-race-redlining-and-the-american-dream-23ec445ae439

I hope City Lab and its readers have an opportunity to read it. Cheers!