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According to a 2021 National Bureau of Economic Research study by Price V. Fishback, Jessica LaVoice, Allison Schertzer and Randall Walsh, “...most residents of neighborhoods where the FHA refused to
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Toggle open close In the early 20th century, the federal government engaged in housing “redlining”—a practice that conditioned access to federally backed home loans on the perceived economic health of a neighborhood and used demographic factors such as race in those decisions. Redlining is a term derived from maps drawn by the Home Owners Loan Corporation (HOLC) in the 1930s, which color-coded neighborhoods, using red to denote areas that were perceived to be “hazardous” for lending. This practice of redlining had an effect on access to credit and where people could live and, becau...