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SOURCE: Louisville Courier-Journal
12/12/2022
Moving To Louisville Brought Me Face to Face with the Racist History of Home Prices
by Jemar Tisby
Neither historical patterns nor contemporary socioeconomic differences can explain why Black Louisvilleans' homes are valued so much lower than whites'.
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SOURCE: The Metropole
11/3/2022
The Tyranny of the Maps: Rethinking Redlining
by Robert Gioielli
The four-color mortgage security maps created by New Deal-era bureaucrats and bankers have become a widely-known symbol of housing discrimination and the racial wealth gap. But does the public familiarity with the maps obscure the history of housing discrimination? And what can historians do about that?
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SOURCE: Public Books
3/22/2022
Is "Regulation from Below" Possible? Historian Rebecca Marchiel on Community Housing Activism
"Marchiel’s narrative paints the picture of a remarkably powerful national reinvestment campaign against an almost unstoppable force of ever more inventive flows of capital. Perhaps the lesson should have been that capitalism refuses to work for people."
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SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
3/15/2022
Biden's Push for Infrastructure Can't Leave Black Communities Behind
by N.D.B. Connolly
When infrastructure programs drive growth politics, entrenched interests in banking, real estate and planning can profit from preserving and expanding racial inequality.
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SOURCE: The Atlantic
11/29/2021
The Invention of America's Most Dangerous Idea
by Gene Slater
How did a right-wing conception of "freedom" rooted in the individual's absolute property rights supersede an idea of freedom based in social equality? Blame the real estate industry.
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SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
11/15/2021
How to Ensure a New Redlining Initiative Succeeds
by Robert Henderson and Rebecca Marchiel
Ensuring equity in mortgage lending requires understanding why the Community Reinvestment Act failed to achieve the same goal decades ago, through a better awareness of the ongoing problems in mortgage lending.
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SOURCE: Platform
11/1/2021
How Academia Laid the Groundwork for Redlining
by Todd Michney and LaDale Winling
Richard T. Ely and his student Ernest McKinley Fisher pushed the National Association of Real Estate Boards to adopt "the unsupported hypothesis that Black people's very presence inexorably lowered property values," tying the private real estate industry to racial segregation.
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SOURCE: Governing
9/21/2021
Redlining Happened, but Not Exactly the Way We've Thought it Did
New economic research reinforces an argument made by historian Amy Hillier, that federal agencies didn't invent "redlining" but responded to widespread public prejudices that imagined Black residents as threats to neighborhood property value.
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SOURCE: Savannah Morning News
8/16/2021
The Odd Place of one Savannah Neighborhood in the History of Redlining
by Todd Michney
The history of the Cuyler-Brownville area shows that HOLC risk assessments and Federal lending practices were responsive to local banks' perception of lending risk and desire for profit, factors which resulted in the rarity of an African American community retaining a "green" rating.
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SOURCE: New York Times
8/17/2021
Redlining: What is It?
"Though the maps were internal documents that were never made public by the federal government, their ramifications were obvious to Black homeowners who could not get home loans that were backed by government insurance programs."
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SOURCE: Last Week Tonight
7/26/2021
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver Ties the History of Housing Discrimination to Reparations
John Oliver breaks down the long history of housing discrimination in the U.S., the damage it’s done, and, crucially, what we can do about it.
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SOURCE: Dissent
7/8/2021
Redlining, Race, and the Color of Money
by Garrett Dash Nelson
"Redlining maps reveal how the federal government managed risk for capital—a role that has perpetuated inequality long after the end of explicit discrimination in the housing market."
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SOURCE: The 74
3/22/2021
New Study: 5 Ways Racist 1930s Housing Policies Still Haunt Schools
Past discriminatory housing policies have been determined to be a major factor in the black-white wealth gap. A new report has linked redlining to present-day inequalities in education.
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SOURCE: Made By History at The Washington Post
9/24/2020
Why Supermarkets Are Powerful Flash Points In Racial Politics
by Tracey Deutsch and James McElroy
In addition to selling food, grocery stores have also preserved a social order that treats shoppers of different races differently, dispensing hierarchy along with food — and, in fact, creating it.
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SOURCE: New York Times
8/24/2020
How Decades of Racist Housing Policy Left Neighborhoods Sweltering
A recent study has examined a historical connection between racist redlining practices in urban planning and heat-trapping environments in present-day urban neighborhoods.
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SOURCE: The Atlantic
6/20/2020
To Avoid Integration, Americans Built Barricades in Urban Space
Urban inequality didn’t happen by accident.
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SOURCE: Boston Review
5/1/2020
COVID-19 and the Color Line
by Colin Gordon, Walter Johnson, Jason Q. Purnell, and Jamala Rogers
The disproportionate toll COVID-19 has taken on black Americans is a product of conscious choices by actors at every level of government and private industries like banking, insurance and real estate.
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SOURCE: Billy Penn
4/18/2020
Stimulus Could Heighten Racial Economic Inequality, Historians Warn
The federal government in the 1930s established the housing policies that keep cities segregated even today, said author and historian Richard Rothstein.
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SOURCE: Marketplace
4/16/2020
Inequality by Design: How Redlining Continues to Shape our Economy
Professor of history Nathan Connolly visited the travelling exhibit "Undesign the Redline."
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SOURCE: Reason
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Washington Forced Segregation on the Nation
It's time to remedy the effects of that terrible policy.
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