Houston was a fairly small city when this map was produced — with just 300,000 residents in 1930 and climbing to nearly 400,000 by 1940. At this time, Houston was 77.5 percent white and 22.5 ...

Redlining is a type of mortgage discrimination in which lenders ... lending or disproportionately markets their products in the neighborhoods that were once marked as high-risk on redlining maps.

A new study finds that minority neighborhoods where residents were long denied home loans through a practice called redlining have twice as many oil and gas wells as mostly white neighborhoods.

Redlining, a historical housing discrimination practice, continues to be linked to worse cardiovascular health among U.S. veterans, according to research published in JAMA Network Open. The ...

Just like historic redlining in the 20th century, the result is the same: Prices go up, ... How Zoning Broke the American City and How to Fix It,” holds up Houston, Texas, ...

Legal Aid Society Executive Director Colleen Cotter said she wasn’t surprised that Cleveland’s redlining map lined up with the map of where tenants were taking advantage of RTC-C.

Chances are you've heard the term "redlining" before, either in reference to driving, video games, a Saturn SUV from the ...

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 ...

In order to investigate the connection between discriminatory lending practices of the past and health outcomes of today, the team converted redlining maps graded by lending risk to modern-day ...

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 ...

A study says that a nearly 80-year-old law intended to put distressed and tax-delinquent Chicago-area properties back to productive use has done little to improve or solve racial inequities in the ...

Time and time again Clevelanders are presented with data maps that illustrate stark inequities suffered by disadvantaged communities, and each time, the maps seem to echo the city's legacy of ...