This map is the first known city sanctioned document associating “NEGRO” with redlining. It is the start of a century of government policy that insured racial segregation in Syracuse and ...

The term has come to mean racial discrimination of any kind in housing, but it comes from government maps that outlined areas where Black residents lived and were therefore deemed risky investments.

Before we began reporting on 'The Map: Segregated Syracuse from 1919,' urban history experts across the country were pouring through reels of microfilm, digitizing thick binders of residential ...

In the early 20th century, the federal government categorized neighborhoods, based largely on race, to determine mortgage eligibility. A new site combines the maps — and their revealing backstories.

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 ...

Why does Cincinnati's redlining map look like it was hand-drawn? by John Lomax and Stephanie Kuzydym. Tue, February 15th 2022 at 11:33 AM. Updated Wed, February 16th 2022 at 1:54 AM. 4.

Redlining is the practice of denying loans and insurance to homebuyers in minority areas by deeming them a financial risk. It started during the Great Depression in the 1930s.

Harper published in 2022 "The Lines that Shape Canton, Ohio: Examining the Impact of Redlining in 28 Neighborhoods," an online and interactive project about how the city's neighborhoods and the ...

Lasting Scars, Part 2: Fifty years later, Dayton remains segregated Redlining map of Dayton created by the Home Owners’ Loan Corporation in 1935. Red areas show parts of town deemed most at risk ...