Dear friends, In the wake of the Great Depression of the 1930s, the U.S. government rated neighborhoods in hundreds of cities as part of efforts to subsidize mortgages and stave off foreclosures. Black and immigrant areas were typically rated as the riskiest places to lend, and not coincidentally. The surveyors often used starkly racist language —
NYT: air pollution and racist housing policy
NYT: air pollution and racist housing policy
NYT: air pollution and racist housing policy
Dear friends, In the wake of the Great Depression of the 1930s, the U.S. government rated neighborhoods in hundreds of cities as part of efforts to subsidize mortgages and stave off foreclosures. Black and immigrant areas were typically rated as the riskiest places to lend, and not coincidentally. The surveyors often used starkly racist language —