housing segregation

Interstate 405 cuts through neighborhoods near the Los Angeles International Airport, seen here in 2017. A new study found links between modern urban air pollution and historical redlining at the national level.

Even many decades later, redlined areas see higher levels of air pollution

10:04pm March 10, 2022

by Laurel Wamsley

"We see a really clear association between how these maps were drawn in the '30s and the air pollution disparities today," says an author of a study on the effects of the discriminatory policy.

Federal housing policies created after the Depression ensured that African-Americans and other people of color were left out of the new suburban communities — and pushed instead into urban housing projects, such as Detroit's Brewster-Douglass towers.

A 'Forgotten History' Of How The U.S. Government Segregated America

9:28am May 04, 2017

by Terry Gross

Author Richard Rothstein says the housing programs begun under the New Deal were tantamount to a "state-sponsored system of segregation," in which people of color were purposely excluded from suburbs.

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Overlapping maps of the five boroughs of New York were combined in "Mapping Inequality," to show redlining across the entire city.

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Interactive Redlining Map Zooms In On America's History Of Discrimination

3:22pm October 19, 2016

by Camila Domonoske

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.

Housing segregation leads to racially distinct social spaces, and not just when it comes to schools or offices.

Where Brunch And Housing Segregation Collide

4:16pm January 14, 2016

by Leah Donnella

The consequences of housing segregation can be severe. But they can also be intimate and nebulous, and show up at the most awkward times.