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Marketplace: How federal policy from the ’30s continues to harm Philadelphia

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Marketplace, January 11, 2018: How federal policy from the ’30s continues to harm Philadelphia 

Ariella Cohen — editor in chief of the online publication Next City — about the lingering effects of redlining on Philadelphia. Back in the 1930s, the federal government began encouraging mortgage lenders to withhold credit from areas where people of color or immigrant communities lived.
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