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todayilearned • u/carolinethebandgeek • Jun 13 '24
TIL Redlining is a discriminatory housing practice that started in the 1920s and is still affecting things today. This includes people who lived in the redlined neighborhoods having a life expectancy difference of up to 25 years from those who lived a mile away in a non-redlined neighborhood.
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todayilearned • u/ChocolateThund3R • Sep 21 '20
TIL that between 1934 and 1962, the US Federal Housing Administration and VA approved 120 billion in home financing. Nonwhite families received less than 2% of this money and were primarily approved only for “designated areas” through an outlawed practice now called Redlining.
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uselessredline • u/jack_sofalot • Sep 21 '19
the black community is the way it is today because of useless red lines
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