MarketWatch: How ‘redlining’ still hurts home values
The racist lending policy continues to affect consumers to this day
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Slate: Redlining has taken a huge toll on property values. But not everywhere.
What do Baltimore, Dallas, and Miami have in common?
Zillow: Home values remain low in vast majority of formerly redlined neighborhoods
Home values in the vast majority of neighborhoods that were “redlined” as hazardous for mortgage lending by the federal government 80 years ago are lower now than in areas rated more highly.
Reveal: Warren writes to regulators on ‘disturbing pattern’ of fair housing changes
The Democratic Senator said officials are rolling back anti-discrimination protections for people of color in the face of modern-day redlining.
The New York Times: Blacks still face a red line on housing
The Great Recession reduced the African-American homeownership rate to levels not seen since housing discrimination was legal in the 1960s.
New Yorker: The unfulfilled promise of the Fair Housing Act
Fifty years after President Lyndon B. Johnson signed it into law, the bill has failed to deliver on its key tenet: creating an integrated society.
NextCity: Mapping 80 years of segregation in U.S. cities
New report from NCRC shows the legacy of redlining.
Washington Post: Redlining was banned 50 years ago. It’s still hurting minorities today.
Researchers at NCRC compared HOLC maps, the most comprehensive documentation of discriminatory lending practices, with modern-day census data to determine how much neighborhood demographics have changed in 80 years.
Reversing the red lines: Disinvestment in America’s cities
With the publication of Richard Rothstein’s 2017 book, The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America, the issue of racial and economic “redlining” has come to the forefront. The shocking thing about the revelations in Rothstein’s book is the degree to which policies and practices of segregation were accepted and …
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How 1930s discrimination shaped inequality in today’s cities
The study shows how policies and practices that influence access to capital and credit can have a lasting impact on housing patterns, the economic health of neighborhoods and who accumulates wealth.
Courthouse News Service: Fair-housing groups nail Facebook on virtual redlining
Taking aim at the targeted-advertising algorithms that put Facebook on top of modern-day marketing, several fair-housing advocates brought a federal complaint Tuesday over virtual redlining.
Reveal: You had questions about modern-day redlining. We have answers
We received thousands of questions about redlining’s history and legality – and what everyday citizens can do about it.
HOLC “redlining” maps: The persistent structure of segregation and economic inequality
This study examines how neighborhoods were evaluated for lending risk by the HOLC, and compares their recent social and economic conditions with city-level measures of segregation and economic inequality
Medium: Bank Lobbyist Act makes it easier for banks to discriminate in lending
S. 2155, expected to clear the Senate in the coming days, is a banker’s wishlist.
Houston Chronicle: NAACP sues Capital One Bank, alleging discrimination in banking services
The lawsuit, filed this week in U.S. District Court in Houston by the local chapters of the NAACP and LULAC, the League of United Latin American Citizens, alleges that Capital One violated federal fair housing and credit laws.
