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Redlining
Redlining
Redlining is the practice of denying or increasing the cost of services, such as banking, insurance, access to jobs, access to health care, or even supermarkets to residents in certain, often racially determined, areas.[1][2][3] The most devastating form of redlining, and the most common use of the term, refers to mortgage discrimination, in which middle-income black and Hispanic residents are denied loans that are made available to lower-income whites. The term redlining was coined in the late 1960s by community activists in Chicago. It describes the practice of marking a red line on a map to delineate the area where banks would not invest; later the term was applied to discrimination against a particular group of people (usually by race or sex), no matter the geography. During the heyday of redlining these areas were most frequently black inner city neighborhoods. Later, through at least the 1990s, this discrimination involved lending to lower-income whites, but not to middle- or upper-income blacks. (ref: Immergluck, Dedman.)
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REFERENCES
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[1] Racial Discrimination and Redlining in Cities
[2] In poor health: Supermarket redlining and urban nutrition, Elizabeth Eisenhauer, GeoJournal Volume 53, Number 2 / February, 2001
[3] How East New York Became a Ghetto by Walter Thabit. ISBN 0814782671. Page 42.
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[1] "Redlining." Wikipedia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Holc_redlining_map.jpeg. Public Domain. http://cml.upenn.edu/redlining/HOLC_1936.htm
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