The three-judge panel in Chicago on Tuesday unanimously reversed a lower court and said that a group of Milwaukee-area residents may use the Fair Housing Act in their suit against an insurance company that they say overcharged or refused homeowners coverage in black neighborhoods. “This means th...
the Home Owners Loan Corporation adapted policies called "redlining" from the private real estate sector to assess credit risk in different neighborhoods. This codified housing discrimination in the US, and in Cincinnati, created another border that its black population had to...
(FHA), helped standardize real estate appraisal methods that entrenched residential segregation and, in the process, produced a number of residential security or redlining maps that classified and ranked neighborhoods in cities across the country based in part on racist beliefs (Jackson, 1987; Mich...