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.

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

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 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 ...

History of redlining in Shreveport: Part 1. ... The HOLC sent teams to 239 US cities with populations exceeding 40,000 people according to the 1930 Census and created maps portraying residential ...

Redlining is the name given to a discriminatory lending practice dating back to the 1930s when lenders would draw red lines on maps around neighborhoods that were predominantly Black as a way to ...

It created a digital archive of “redlining,” the New Deal-era housing ... He and others recently surveyed birds across the sprawling metropolis and analyzed the findings against redlining maps.

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

Their answer: Federal “redlining” maps that sanctioned discriminatory lending policies in the late 1940s correlated strongly with sites of vacant and abandoned properties today.

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 ...