Title: Redlining in Seattle — Real Estate Gals
Headings: Redlining in Seattle
Redlining in Seattle
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Content: No person of African, Japanese, Chinese, or of any other Mongolian descent.” Sammamish: No “person of the Malay or any Asiatic race or descent, or any person of the races commonly known as the Negro races, or of their descent.” White Center: No “Hebrew or … any person of the Ethiopian, Malay or any Asiatic Race.” The Fair Housing Act of 1968 outlawed redlining and other race-based housing discrimination, but the impacts have stayed. The red areas of the 1930s are still today’s impoverished, minority-dominated neighborhoods. And although legal discrimination has been outlawed, housing and banking is still far from equal. “The history of racial restrictive covenants and racial segregation, while generally forgotten, is an immensely important aspect of Seattle’s past,” the UW study concludes. “ It has left its mark on all Seattle neighborhoods and has shaped the demographics of Seattle’s residential neighborhoods.”