Title: Redlining and Neighborhood Health » NCRC
Headings: redlining and neighborhood health
redlining and neighborhood health
— OVERVIEW
— Key Takeaways
— Key Findings
— Key Recommendations
Jason Richardson, Director, Research & Evaluation, NCRC
Executive Summary
— Other Views
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With COVID-19 taking a new toll, a poor Black community in Alabama awaits justice for a 2008 industrial disaster
Systemic Problems Call For Systemic Solutions: California Needs The Right Policy Tools To Address Historic Racism
The Black Butterfly
COVID-19 Disparities In Rochester, NY: The Legacy Of Redlining In The City Of Frederick Douglass And Susan B. Anthony
De Facto Or De Jure Housing Inequities: The Outcomes Are The Same
Mapping Inequality: There Were No Dog Whistles, The Racism Was Loud And Clear
Environmental Justice And COVID-19: Some Are Living In A Syndemic
Introduction
Redlining, the HOLC Maps And Segregation
What is redlining?
How the HOLC maps have been interpreted
Segregation, Public Health and COVID-19
Overview
Epidemiology of SARS COV-2
COVID-19 health risk factors
HOLC residential security maps & public health
Racism, segregation & COVID-19
Public health indicators
Gaps in our hypothesis
Methods
Design
Study area and data
Variables:
Historical redlining score
Statistical analyses
Results
Discussion
Conclusion and Policy Recommendations
Citations
Appendix
How to use the Maps

Content: 3] [4] Lower-income Black and Hispanic communities, which have experienced disinvestment for decades, are especially hard-hit by the toll, and they are paying a high price in decreased opportunity and increased exposure to the disease. [ 5] These communities are recognized as having high social vulnerability, meaning that they have a decreased capability to withstand natural and human-created disasters because of their more limited resources (Cutter, Boruff and Shirley, 2003). The federal governmental response to the virus makes these vulnerabilities more obvious. But how did low-income and minority communities become so vulnerable to disasters like the COVID-19 pandemic? Public health research aims to understand how historical processes have created and maintained social, economic and environmental conditions that give rise to poor health. A key concept from public health research involves pathways, which trace the history of social circumstances in places which create the health outcomes for communities that we see today. Many low-income Black and Hispanic communities with poor health outcomes are located in places which have been subject to decades of disinvestment. This history of disinvestment can be traced back to the early twentieth century when residential segregation was imposed in more formalized ways on cities throughout the country. This segregation was implemented using a variety of measures, including restrictive deeds and covenants, zoning regulations, public health codes, as well as officially sanctioned “redlining.” The impact of redlining, a practice that intentionally restricted investment in parts of American cities based largely on the race of the people that lived there, has been far reaching – defining the residential landscape of American cities today.