Posts tagged Redlining
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Events: Join us at Grand Duchess to learn how to run for an ANC seat in DC
Discover how to run for the Advisory Neighborhood Commission with GGWash. Watch a documentary about reparations with Undesign the Redline. Learn about closing the homeownership gap with the Urban Institute. Join a Ward 5 family bike ride. Meet and connect at our Planners of Color happy hour. Read more in this week’s events post: Keep reading…
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Events: Mapping segregation in DC
Unpack DC’s history of racial segregation with Undesign The Redline. Check out live music, food, and drinks at Community Forklift. Chat with other cyclists and advocates with WABA. Connect with a diverse community of local planners and meet other folks who are engaged with centering equity in housing, transportation, and land-use policy. Read more in this week’s events post: Keep reading…
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Can housing vouchers for all stem the region’s housing crisis?
As the pandemic exacerbates the nation’s housing crisis, President Biden and Acting Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Marcia Fudge have declared support for opening up Housing Choice Vouchers (also known as Section 8 vouchers) to every eligible American. What impact could this have on the housing crisis in the region? Keep reading…
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Residential segregation wasn’t an accident — it was government policy
White and Black Americans are segregated not solely due to choices made by private individuals, but because of policies created and maintained by the government itself. On Monday night, GGWash hosted a discussion of The Color of Law, Richard Rothstein’s book about government-sponsored, or de jure, segregation. Keep reading…
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Events: Learn how a historic, discriminatory housing policy shapes Baltimore today
Find out how redlining has impacted Baltimore residents. Dig into DC’s history of Black power. Learn how global communities are making space for commuters, and more in this week’s urbanist events. Keep reading…
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Here are three things you need to know to get land-use woke
Increasingly our national dialogue about housing affordability is looking at land use as both the problem and the place for solutions. America’s history of land use is fundamentally racist, exclusionary, and exploitative, and if we’re going to have conversations about where to go in this policy space, we need to discuss what got us here. Keep reading…
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Banks find loopholes to deny blacks and Latinos home loans at twice the rate of whites
Here in the Washington region, African Americans are 2.2 times as likely to be denied a home mortgage loan compared to whites, an analysis from Reveal News shows. Latinos are 1.9 times as likely to be denied — even when controlling for factors like the applicant’s income, loan amount, and neighborhood. Keep reading…
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Watch how the suburbs became white with “Settlers of the Suburbs: redlining edition”
Decades of racist zoning policies continue to perpetrate segregation in neighborhoods and schools and disenfranchise racial minorities to this day–long after redlining policies were officially taken off the books. Keep reading…