Title: Redlining: How it Continues to Affect Education Today – Activism, Meet Impact | Novel Hand
Headings: Redlining: How it Continues to Affect Education Today
Redlining: How it Continues to Affect Education Today
What is Redlining?
Does Redlining Still Exist Today?
Housing Policy is Education Policy
Why This Matters
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Content: One important factor in segregation in schools is housing, and how the housing market was discriminatory throughout the 20th century. The impacts of many of those policies, specifically redlining, allow this segregation to persist today. What is Redlining? Last week, Alexa wrote a post on racially restrictive covenants and how racially segregated communities have impacted the current civil rights discourse in our country today. Redlining also contributed to these racially segregated communities across the country. Redlining is a practice where banks in the United States would deny mortgages to people to prevent them from buying a home in certain neighborhoods, based mainly off of their race, even if they had the right credit score to make them eligible for the loan. This practice was enforced from various agents, the banks, real estate firms, other mortgage lenders, and was even backed by the federal government which deemed it as “best practices for responsible lending.” Maps were literally outlined with red to separate wealthier neighborhoods that were more desirable to live in. Mapping Inequality: Redlining in New Deal America https://dsl.richmond.edu/panorama/redlining/#loc=0/41.179/-105.293&text=downloads
Does Redlining Still Exist Today?