NextCity: Mapping 80 years of segregation in U.S. cities
New report from NCRC shows the legacy of redlining.
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New report from NCRC shows the legacy of redlining.
NextCity: Mapping 80 years of segregation in U.S. cities Read More »
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.
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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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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.
How 1930s discrimination shaped inequality in today’s cities Read More »
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.
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We received thousands of questions about redlining’s history and legality – and what everyday citizens can do about it.
Reveal: You had questions about modern-day redlining. We have answers Read More »
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
HOLC “redlining” maps: The persistent structure of segregation and economic inequality Read More »
S. 2155, expected to clear the Senate in the coming days, is a banker’s wishlist.
Medium: Bank Lobbyist Act makes it easier for banks to discriminate in lending Read More »
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.
Reveal exposes modern-day redlining is occurring in at least 61 US cities. In Philadelphia, black applicants there were almost three times as likely to be denied a conventional home purchase loan as white applicants. And this discrimination isn’t just a few banks, nearly two-thirds of mortgage lenders are still discriminating against clients of color.
Reveal: For people of color, banks are shutting the door to homeownership Read More »
Fifty years after the federal Fair Housing Act banned racial discrimination in lending, African Americans and Latinos continue to be routinely denied conventional mortgage loans at rates far higher than their white counterparts.
Reveal: For people of color, banks are shutting the door to homeownership Read More »
Millions of mortgage records analyzed by Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting show that the legacy of redlining persists.
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An investigation by the National Community Reinvestment Coalition (NCRC) discovered that a majority of the top 50 FHA lenders have instituted policies that limit access to credit to working families in low- and moderate-income communities, and in communities of color, the very same communities that have been most harmed by the greed and malfeasance of
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