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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.
“The impact (of redlining) is what you can still see today,” said Anika Goss, president and chief executive of Detroit Future City, a nonprofit tasked with implementing a 50-year framework for ...
Opinion: Black home buyers still experience discrimination in the housing market due to segregation and racist restrictions of the past.
The anti-redlining effort has now secured $107 million in relief, including the Ameris settlement, which a judge must approve. A $31 million settlement with Los Angeles-based City National in ...
Ta-Nehisi Coates "The Case for Reparations" is an article written by Ta-Nehisi Coates and published in The Atlantic in 2014. The article focuses on redlining and housing discrimination through the eyes of people who have experienced it and the devastating effects it has had on the African-American community.
The history of American social and public policies, like Jim Crow laws, exclusionary covenants, and the Federal Housing Administration's early redlining policies, set the tone for segregation in housing that has sustained consequences for present-day residential patterns.
“It wasn’t accidental or incidental — it was a very intentional plan that involved our government at all levels, and the impact lasts today.” Like Crooks, Adkins believes that the facts ...
Characteristics of a blighted neighborhoods include rundown homes, streets strewn with garbage, poor lighting, and high rates of crime. Douglas Massey and Nancy Denton explore this logic in their book "American Apartheid". Massey and Denton focus their research on the effects of residential housing discrimination towards African Americans.