Title: Redlining was banned 50 years ago. It’s still hurting minorities today. - The Washington Post
Headings: Redlining was banned 50 years ago. It’s still hurting minorities today.
Redlining was banned 50 years ago. It’s still hurting minorities today.
The Senate rolls back rules meant to root out discrimination by mortgage lenders

Content: Redlining was banned 50 years ago. It’s still hurting minorities today. - The Washington Post
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Redlining was banned 50 years ago. It’s still hurting minorities today. Baltimore rowhouses in 1938. ( John Vachon/Farm Security Administration/Library of Congress)
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Tracy Jan
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March 28, 2018 at 10:00 a.m. UTC
Racial discrimination in mortgage lending in the 1930s shaped the demographic and wealth patterns of American communities today, a new study shows, with 3 out of 4 neighborhoods “redlined” on government maps 80 years ago continuing to struggle economically. Support our journalism. Subscribe today. arrow-right
The study by the National Community Reinvestment Coalition, released Wednesday, shows that the vast majority of neighborhoods marked “hazardous” in red ink on maps drawn by the federal Home Owners’ Loan Corp. from 1935 to 1939 are today much more likely than other areas to comprise lower-income, minority residents. “It’s as if some of these places have been trapped in the past, locking neighborhoods into concentrated poverty,” said Jason Richardson, director of research at the NCRC, a consumer advocacy group.