Title: The Effects of Redlining
Headings: Redlining and its Effects
Redlining and its Effects
By: Faustina Ejiofor
What is Redlining?
How did Redlining start?
The Effects
Education

Content: He stated, “The reason gentrification has a bad rap is due to the inequality between race and housing. Race is, at its heart, a class issue…The devaluing of lower-class neighborhoods, usually residents of color, is the result of a history of unjust policies, including government defunding and redlining.” Although gentrification seems like the opposite of redlining, and it in fact diversifying cities it reinforces the class and racial divide that redlining created and perpetuated. Education
Redlining also has negatively affected the education of lower income kids, and that is something that will have a generation effect on families. Schools in high income communities tend to be better than those in lower income communities, because these public schools are funded by the city through taxes, so essentially the ability of a school to thrive depends on the income of those in the community. In lower
income communities schools are not well funded, because the community does not have the financial capacity to support the schools. The inability of a community of children to be educated is all due to a practice that was performed in the 1930s. The poor schooling and the lack of support students were missing due to this underfunding causes many to dropout. A student dropping out of school will affect not only that student, but their family. The lack of a degree will make it hard to get a job to be able to support themself and their family.