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institutional cultural discrimination

Redlining and Racial Covenants: HOLC 'Security Maps' (New Deal Era)

The federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation produced 'Residential Security' maps grading neighborhoods; 'D' areas were often redlined, excluding Black borrowers and shaping decades of segregated wealth. Documented by the Mapping Inequality project and historians.

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The federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation produced 'Residential Security' maps grading neighborhoods; 'D' areas were often redlined, excluding Black borrowers and shaping decades of segregated wealth. Documented by the Mapping Inequality project and historians. Read full entry →