Todd Michney News Today

Decades ago in some neighborhoods, there were illegal lines drawn to do one thing: Keep certain people from crossing them.

Researchers at Case Western Reserve University have analyzed archival maps and documents to determine what motived government agencies and private financial firms to redline certain Ohio neighborhoods in the 1930s and 40s.

New research is shedding light on the true origins of the redlining maps that led to mortgage discrimination in predominately Black neighborhoods. Many people have mistakenly pointed to maps created by the Home Owners Loan Corporation in the 1940s. Researchers say, however, that other maps created by banks, insurance companies and the FHA were truly behind the racist banking policies known as redlining.

Historical inequities in the real estate industry created harm, and we have a collective responsibility to make it right, or at least better.

In Cleveland, the debate over whether the holdings of nonprofit hospitals should be exempt from property tax are informed by the racism and redlining.

For years, hospitals and public policy wonks have been engaged in an ongoing debate over whether nonprofit hospitals provide adequate benefits to the community to make the tax breaks they receive a good deal for taxpayers. That debate is further complicated by the history of racist policies like redlining that still affect Clevelanders today.

“It’s just another way in which low-income neighborhoods and neighborhoods of color have been subjected to disproportionate environmental burdens."

With its shortened days and whipping winds, winter in Northeast Ohio is the 10 months each year when we allow ourselves to throw on sweatpants,...

Former Ohio Supreme Court Justice Bill ONeill says students are being robbed of education By Tamu Thomas | March 4, 2021 at 10:31 AM EST - Updated March 12 at 7:16 AM CLEVELAND, Ohio (WOIO) - 19 News will take a closer look to see if a legacy of racial discrimination in housing still affects aspects of contemporary life. The four-part series will speak to experts who have spent years examining how the government’s policies in the early 1900s contributed to segregation. “We calle...