In the early 20th century, the federal government categorized neighborhoods, based largely on race, to determine mortgage eligibility. A new site combines the maps — and their revealing backstories.

-Thanks to Johnny Finn for this addition: the project Redlining in Virginia, which uses HOLC maps of Norfolk, Richmond, and Roanoke. NARA II RG 195, Entry 39, Folder “Austin, Texas,” Box 153 ...

This also means that the famous redlining maps issued by the latter agency do not reflect how discriminatory lending was put into practice. The researchers studied over 16,000 loans in three ...

The interactive website now allows anyone to zoom in on the infamous redlining maps from the 1930s and view the neighborhood descriptions produced by one of the New Deal's most important agencies ...

The report, “Maps of Inequality: From Redlining to Urban Decay and the Black Exodus,” argues that those redlined maps “set in motion urban decay and fueled an ongoing exodus of Black people ...

The redlining map for Cedar Rapids, courtesy of Ben Kaplan, Robert Nelson, and the Mapping Inequality Project) To provide relief … ...

Digital map. Red lines are neighborhood boundaries. Gray polygons are building layer objects from the City of Shreveport GIS ...

Todd M. Maloney, “How and Why the Home Owners’ Loan Corporation Made Its Redlining Maps.” In Robert K. Nelson. Introduction, in Robert K. Nelson, LaDale Winling, et al. “Mapping Inequality ...

Comparing New York City's health department's recent heat vulnerability maps and the 1930s redlining maps show a strong link between how areas were classified back then and where people were most ...

The redlining map of Tacoma. Courtesy Mapping Inequality Addressing the impacts of redlining, Mitchell says, must start at the federal level, with one law in particular: The Community Reinvestment ...

The project features the infamous redlining maps from the Home Owners' Loan Corporation. In the late 1930s, the HOLC "graded" neighborhoods into four categories, based in large part on their racial ...

The project features the infamous redlining maps from the Home Owners' Loan Corporation. In the late 1930s, the HOLC "graded" neighborhoods into four categories, based in large part on their ...