Background Redlining was a racialized zoning practice in the US that blocked fair access to
home loans during the 1930s, and recent research is illuminating health problems in the …

Structural racism, which is embedded in past and present operations of the US housing
market, is a fundamental cause of racial health inequities. We conducted an ecologic study …

Racial residential segregation is considered a fundamental cause of racial health
disparities, with housing discrimination as a critical driver of residential segregation. Despite …

The contemporary practice of homeownership in the United States was born out of
government programs adopted during the New Deal. The Home Owners Loan Corporation …

As in economics, racial discrimination has long been a focus of research in sociology. Yet
the disciplines traditionally have differed in how they approach the topic. While some studies …

Segregation by Design draws on more than 100 years of quantitative and qualitative data
from thousands of American cities to explore how local governments generate race and …

This study uses a boundary design and propensity score methods to study the effects of the
1930s-era Home Owners Loan Corporation (HOLC)“redlining” maps on the long-run …

We show that the Federal Housing Administration (FHA), from its inception in the 1930s, did
not insure mortgages in low income urban neighborhoods where the vast majority of urban …

Redlining was a racially discriminatory housing policy established by the federal
government's Home Owners' Loan Corporation (HOLC) during the 1930s. For decades …

We estimate the long-run effects of the 1930s Home Owners Loan Corporation (HOLC)
redlining maps on census tract-level measures of socioeconomic status and economic …