Redlining...let's talk about it again...

[Ken Burch]

I'm looking for more information on redlining as an official policy again. As I understand it, it was pretty much legislatively banned in the 1980's but the long-term consequences remain.

Any links anyone can provide would be welcome.

Also, I've had a general idea that, while reparations for slavery probably won't ever go through, we could push for a new anti-poverty effort under the heaing of "reparations for redlining". We know that redlining has a paper trail, that federal officials in the 1930's began actively pushing for it, and that this push more or less corresponds to the economic decline African-American and Latino American neighborhoods(as well as old-time working-class white neighborhods)started to go into.

This could be something we could really work with.

[WCGreen]

1. Just look at how many Bank Branches in the Inner City

have been replaced by Bank Machines....

Also, they have to coerce banks here in Cleveland to lend money in several areas of the city...