Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
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.
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 ...
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."
It’s about time we look at historical redlining maps and acknowledge how the historical boundaries they outline continue to define our neighborhood today. In those maps, North Tower was marked ...
The FHA redlining maps have largely disappeared, but the 1938 HOLC map shows a pattern of segregation that still exists today. In green, or “best,” is Chevy Chase, “a new neighborhood of 60 ...
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 ...
English: Brooklyn, New York HOLC Redlining Map April 1, 1938. Date: 1 April 1938: ... File history. Click on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time.
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.