In the mid-1930s, the United States was suffering through the Great Depression. President Roosevelt and Congress developed New Deal programs to help bring America out of this financial and social crisis. Among these programs were the Home Owners Loan Corporation (HOLC) and the Federal Housin...
first as a matter of policy and later in practice” (CBS). With skin color determining who and where a person can now live in America, cause racial minorities live separately from white people. Housing in the
The article reviews the web sites "Mapping Inequality: Redlining in New Deal America," available at http://dsl.richmond.edu/mappinginequality.html, and "Renewing Inequality: Family Displacements through Urban Renewal," available at http://dsl.richmond.edu/renewinginequality.html, both from the ...
What is redlining in simple terms? Redlining is the practice of denying home loans to people based solely on race or ethnicity. Today the term is used generically to describe any biased practices in lending. Why is redlining unethical?
12,13 This set the stage for the deaccumulation of protective resources and hyperaccumulation of risk in predominantly non-White neighborhoods.15 Today, redlined neighborhoods have more environmental hazards, fewer amenities, and reduced accumulation of generational wealth, increasing the risk...
While the riots were over by the night of the next day, the city still suffered $3 million in property damage (approx. $22 million today), and 2 people died. After a second year of riots, white (and black) families who had the ability to move away from Avondale did so, leaving the...
rates. This can be traced in part to redlining, a federal policy dating from the 1930s, which made it more difficult for nonwhite buyers to purchase homes and codified racist attitudes in real estate. Here’s more on the history of redlining’s complex impact on real estate in America. ...
Mapping inequality: redlining in New Deal America. Accessed August 10, 2021. https://dsl.richmond.edu/panorama/redlining/#loc=5/39.1/-94.58 2. Krieger N, Wright E, Chen JT, Waterman PD, Huntley ER, Arcaya M. Cancer stage at diagnosis, historical redlining, and ...
grateful to Dr. Kirsten Eilertson and the Graybill Statistical Laboratory at Colorado State University, Josh Reyling and the Colorado State University Geospatial Centroid for technical support on this project, and the staff and the participants of the Healthy Start study for their involvement in the...
Mary Wisniewski