In the 1930s the federal government created redlining maps for almost every major American city. Mapping Inequality lets you explore these maps and the history of racial and ethnic discrimination in …

Individually, these maps offer opportunities for cities and towns for which HOLC did not make a map to recognize and reckon with the history of redlining and racial discrimination in real estate policies and …

Mapping Inequality Redlining in New Deal America Explore the Maps Search the Area Descriptions Read about Redlining Teach about Redlining Download the Data What's New About Contact Us and …

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More than 100 redlining maps have been added that were not produced by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation (HOLC) as part of the City Survey Program. All of these maps were collected by HOLC, …

The deadline that Congress set for HOLC applications was June 1935, several months before work on the City Survey and its redlining maps even began. By the time the first batch of maps was available, …

Realtors and appraisers around the metro area, along with social scientists at Northwestern University and the University of Chicago, developed professional practices, conducted research on the city, and …

In 2017-2018, I led a team of scientists that used the HOLC redlining maps to analyze the links between discrimination in the twentieth-century housing markets and contemporary public health stressors.

The area descriptions are invaluable for laying bare the racist, nativist, and often anti-semitic prejudices underlying real estate practice and federal housing policy during the Great Depression. To explore …

Thus, redlining in Boston in the 1930s, coupled with the subsequent processes of urban development in the decades after the HOLC maps were made, together tell a challenging story about the intertwined …