The Legacy of Redlining Continues to Color Cities [esri.com]
By Emily Meriam, Ross Donihue, and Craig McCabe, ArcUser, June 2021 Redlining is the practice of discriminating against residents of an area based on race or ethnicity through systematic policies that deny financial services—especially mortgages—that are applied based on location. The Home Owners’ Loan Corporation (HOLC) was created in 1933 to increase homeownership as part of the New Deal. HOLC mapped neighborhoods and assigned grades to areas based on perceived lending risk factors that...