redlining

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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
  Accessed 1/29/19
  

  Washington Forced Segregation on the Nation

  It's time to remedy the effects of that terrible policy.