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Redlining is a discriminatory practice in which financial services are withheld from neighborhoods that have significant numbers of racial and ethnic minorities. [2] Redlining has been most prominent in the United States, and has mostly been directed against African-Americans.
Black adults living in zip codes historically impacted by redlining have an 8% higher risk of developing heart failure than Black adults in non-redlined areas, a study published Monday in the ...
The study included nearly 2.4 million adults who lived in U.S. communities with varying degrees of redlining. Black adults living The post Black adults in redlined areas face higher heart failure ...
The lack of investment in neighborhood infrastructure and amenities have resulted in communities of color living in areas far hotter than those of their white neighbors.
This practice, known as redlining, was eventually made illegal in 1968 – and its long-term ramifications continue to be felt today. The historic disinvestment has been linked with modern-day ...
The effects of redlining, as noted in HOLC maps, endures to the present time. A study released in 2018 found that 74 percent of neighborhoods that HOLC graded as high-risk or "hazardous" are low-to-moderate income neighborhoods today, while 64 percent of the neighborhoods graded "hazardous" are minority neighborhoods today. [18] "It's as if ...
The practice of redlining has continued across the country and the long-term effects are still felt today, despite a half-century of laws designed to combat it.
As early as 2002 the Gale Encyclopedia of E-Commerce puts forth the distinction more in use today: weblining is the pervasive and generally accepted (or at least tolerated) practice of personalizing access to products and services in ways invisible to the user; digital redlining is when such personalized, data-driven schemes perpetuate ...