Title: Redlining - CityArchives | seattle.gov
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Redlining
Content: The final report from community members of the Mayor's Reinvestment Task Force was completed on June 3, 1976. In August, Councilmembers Paul Kraabel and John Miller, together with Mayor Wes Uhlman, announced a series of meetings to discuss proposed anti-redlining legislation. Public hearings and meetings of the Planning and Urban Development Committee were held during the fall of 1976, and the Public Reinvestment Board was established by Ordinance 105987 that November to help reverse discriminatory practices in lending. At the September 1, 1976, meeting of the Planning and Urban Development Committee, several people spoke about the proposed Public Reinvestment Board. Karen Morgan, a member of the Mayor's Reinvestment Task Force, spoke in favor of the ordinance establishing the Public Reinvestment Board. Karen Morgan: My name is Karen Morgan and I was a member of the task force representing the Wallingford community. I'm not going to make comment on the Lender's Review Board at this time and the process of developing that; I'm simply going to confine my comments to the suggested ordinance which is before you to establish the public review board. First of all, I'd like to say that having worked with this problem for over nine months, I have been impressed over and over with the fact that it is not a simple problem and it is not a problem that has more or less gone away now, because certain banks have decided that they will try harder to make loans.