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Across the United States, historically redlined neighborhoods that scored lowest in racially discriminatory maps drawn by the government-sponsored Home-Owners Loan Corporation (HOLC) in the 1930s had twice the density of oil and gas wells than comparable neighborhoods that scored highest. Wells likely contribute to disproportionate pollution and related health problems in
Study demonstrates the lasting effects of redlining Historically redlined neighborhoods are more likely to have a paucity of greenspace today compared to other neighborhoods. The study by researchers at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health and the University of California, Berkeley and San Francisco, demonstrates the lasting effects of redlining, a racist mortgage appraisal practice of the 1930s that established and exacerbated racial residential segregation in the United States. Results appear in Environmental Health Perspectives. In the 1930s, the Home Owners' Loan Corporati...
Study: Racist neighborhood 'redlining' has led to fewer green spaces today By (0) Researchers say that the racist legacy of "redlining," which was outlawed in the 1960s, has left many urban neighborhoods with fewer green spaces -- a threat to the health of people who live in them. Photo by Free-Photos/Pixabay A racist mortgage appraisal practice used in the United States decades ago has resulted in less green space in some urban neighborhoods today, researchers say. Those so-called "redlined" neighborhoods have higher rates of air and noise pollution, racial segregation and poverty -- all o...