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  2. Redlining - Wikipedia

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    Redlining Louisville: Racial Capitalism and Real Estate, a project by the Louisville Metro Government, offers an interactive map showing the impact of redlining and racial covenants. It includes maps, narratives, and data sets that illustrate the long-term effects of these discriminatory practices.

  3. Home Owners' Loan Corporation - Wikipedia

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    Brooklyn, NY HOLC redlining Map. HOLC is often cited as the originator of mortgage redlining. [11] [12] HOLC maps [13] generated during the 1930s to assess credit-worthiness were color-coded by mortgage security risk, with majority African-American areas disproportionately likely to be marked in red indicating designation as "hazardous."

  4. Residential segregation in the United States - Wikipedia

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    In 1933, the federally created Home Owners' Loan Corporation (HOLC) created maps that coded areas as credit-worthy based on the race of their occupants and the age of the housing stock. These maps, adopted by the Federal Housing Administration (FHA) in 1944, established and sanctioned "redlining". Residents in predominately minority ...

  5. Scorched by history: Discriminatory past shapes heat ... - AOL

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    Comparing 1930s redlining maps with recent heat vulnerability maps by New York City’s health department reveals stunning correlations between how areas were categorized and where residents are ...

  6. Historic redlining linked to present day heart disease risks

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    Story at a glance Laws passed in the 1930s permitted discriminatory loan distribution to residents based on the desirability of their neighborhood. This practice, known as redlining, was ...

  7. In that sense gentrification is another consequence of redlining.” The exhibit will also look at Lexington’s Urban Service Boundary, and what role it has played in housing injustice, and what ...

  8. Housing segregation in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Seal of the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). The seal is a representative of high rise buildings simulating an eagle and giving emphasis to the "urban" in HUD's name. The eagle (shown abstractly) is a symbol of federal authority. The use of green symbolizes open space, land, growth and prosperity.

  9. Delmar Divide - Wikipedia

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    This discriminatory practice not only denied Black families access to homeownership but also deepened the effects of redlining by depriving neighborhoods north of Delmar Boulevard of the resources needed for property maintenance and generational wealth transfer. [25]