redlining

More than 50 years after redlining was outlawed, the legacy of discrimination can still be seen in California’s poorest large city.

Connecting the dots between discriminatory housing policies in the 1930s and urban food insecurity today.

Redlining tours explain how policies designed to keep minorities out of certain areas shaped the urban landscapes we see today.

In many cities, maps of mortgage approvals and home values in black neighborhoods look as they did before the law was passed.

In 1968, the Fair Housing Act made it illegal to discriminate in housing. So why are neighborhoods still so segregated?

From highways carved through thriving ‘ghettoes’ to walls segregating areas by race, city development has a divisive history.

Reveal’s analysis of mortgage data found evidence of modern-day redlining in 61 metro areas across the country.

A review of "The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America."

Decades after civil rights laws overruled policies that starved non-white neighborhoods of investment, deep disparities linger.

The practice of “redlining” kept people of color from home loans for decades.

A housing policy expert explains how federal government policies created the suburbs and the inner city.

In August 1966, the Chicago Freedom Movement, Martin Luther King’s campaign to break the grip of segregation, reached its violent culmination.

It’s known as a modern-day hub of progressivism, but its past is one of exclusion.  

The G.I. Bill created a prosperous middle class that was altogether too white.

In the early years of Brooklyn’s gentrification, a 1977 New Yorker piece by Jervis Anderson captured the process in a freeze-frame.

The Washington state law provides low-interest loans for down payments for those harmed by racially restrictive covenants.

Planners of the Interstate Highway System ignored warnings that they were damaging poor Black and Latino neighborhoods.

A Steel City bibliography of Pittsburgh.

With seventeen holdups in the past few months, something had to be done. “We will talk to the mayor and the police commissioner. We need more protection".

Race-based federal lending rules from New Deal programs kept Black families out of suburban neighborhoods, a policy that continues to slow economic mobility.