The days of legally sanctioned race-based housing discrimination may be behind us, but the legacy of attitudes and practices that kept nonwhite citizens out of some neighborhoods and homeownership ...

Long-abolished discriminatory lending practices in the US are still having an impact on the inequality of climate risks facing urban populations today, according to a new study. The research, ...

Redlining is the term used for the common 20th century practice where African Americans were discriminated against in housing markets and excluded from being able to obtain fair mortgages on account ...

Documents and a map show examples of redlining in Boston in the "Undesign the Redline: the Transformation of Race, Place, and Class in America" exhibit at the Boston Architectural College. (Jesse ...

Nearly 50 million Americans are exposed to higher levels of air pollution as a result of discriminatory “redlining” policies decades after the practice was officially outlawed, according to research ...

While the term "redlining" is now used to describe racial discrimination generally, its origins can be traced to the 1930s and the practice of lending institutions to use color-coded maps as a basis ...

During the Great Depression, the federal government created the Home Owners’ Loan Corporation, which made low-interest home loans, and the Federal Housing Administration, which guaranteed mortgages ...

In the aftermath of the Great Depression, the U.S. government set out to evaluate the riskiness of mortgages — and left behind a stunning portrait of the racism and discrimination that has shaped ...