redlining

In trying to understand one of the key aspects of structural racism, have we constructed a new moralistic story that obscures more than it illuminates?

We looked at 138 formerly redlined cities and found most were still segregated — just like they were designed to be.

How can historic data about segregation, redlining, and real estate be more accessible? In this interview, we dive into a new data set derived from HOLC maps.

History offers some pointers for government regulators.

The connections between private industry and government were much more fluid than was previously imagined.

How race-based legacies of disinvestment initiated by New Deal Era redlining regimes were followed by decades of over-policing at the scale of the neighborhood.

Maps of historic housing discrimination show how neighborhoods that suffered redlining in the 1930s face a far higher risk of flooding today.

Explore maps of 142 cities to see the lingering harms of the racist lending policies known as redlining.

Juxtaposing contemporary public health data with 1930s redlining maps reveals one of the legacies of urban racial segregation.

An interactive data report presents the impact of structural racism on Philadelphia, mapping 2019’s homicides and present day disadvantage with 1930s redlining maps.

A study of more than 100 cities shows neighborhoods subjected to discriminatory housing policies nearly a century ago are hotter today than other areas.

Are New Deal-era redlining maps still the best available tools for understanding the racial wealth gap?

The long legacy of structural racism in the New Deal-era housing market.

Exploring the deep connections between redlining, gentrification, and exclusion in San Francisco.

Redlining: the racist housing policy from the Jim Crow era that still affects us today.

In the 1930s, the federal government created redlining maps for almost every major U.S. city. Explore those maps and their contexts in a brand new version of this project.

Redlining in Omaha began in the 1920s. Although outlawed in the 1960s, its effects are still present in the city's demographics.

The Federal Home Loan Bank Board openly admitted to operating as the Johnny Appleseed of redlining, sowing its seeds into the private financial system.

How America gave up on housing equality.

More than fifty years after the Fair Housing Act, inequality and segregation persists. What went wrong?