Title: How Redlining Communities Affects Health - Geography Realm
Headings: How Redlining Communities Affects Health
How Redlining Communities Affects Health
The Health Effects of Redlining
Redlining Leads to More Foreclosures
Breast Cancer Rates and Redlining
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Content: Anthony Nardone, UC Berkeley. Redlining Leads to More Foreclosures
Other documented cases of redlining and its effect on health have been determined. In Detroit, a study conducted showed that historical redlining has contributed to greater rates of foreclosures, including after the Great Recession of 2008-2009. In other words, redlining from many decades ago has also led to more recent higher rates of foreclosures. In this case, residents in Detroit neighborhoods were also redlined based on race and class starting in the early twentieth century, with higher relative rates of self-assessed incidence reporting showing health issues affecting the population more recently. There is a strong relationship between historical redlining, recent foreclosures, and long-term human health effects, with neighborhoods that were redlined facing higher rates of pollution similar to what was seen in California. [ 2]
Breast Cancer Rates and Redlining
One recent work has highlighted higher rates of death from breast cancer in relation to redlined neighborhoods in the Milwaukee, Wisconsin metropolitan area. It is argued that differential lending continues and some recent work has also created a spatial index, using adaptive spatial filtering, where redlining could be measured along with racial bias in lending practices. Similar to the other cases, historical, long-term biases in lending are apparent and there is a link with human health repercussions as a lack of resources to health care and exposure to risks are more pronounced. [ 3]
Map showing breast cancer mortality rate ratios by metro area, 2010-2014.