Redlining

most of the older struggles except for poverty. Poverty has seemingly remained a constant issue for the residents of Columbus. As time continued on, other issues began to arise like housing issues and public education problems. I will also mention redlining briefly, as an underlining cause to many of the issues Columbus faces as an urban city. I will explore these problems that Columbus has undergone, and the current state of them now. For my observation, I chose to travel through North…

another part of the town.” This shows the frustration many African Americans felt about the situation in Chicago; the segregation was not always a result of socioeconomic status, but it was always a result of racist protocol. Denied of mortgages by “redlining” practices, blacks had to pay out of pocket for the same thing whites received loans…

known as “redlining,” a method that existed between 1934-1968. “Redlining is the practice of denying or limiting financial services to certain neighborhoods based on racial or ethnic composition without regard to the residents’ qualifications or creditworthiness.” ( _http://www.bostonfairhousing.org/timeline/1934-1968-FHA-Redlining.html) Many financial institutes marked areas that that they would not invest or provide mortgage loans with red lines, which originated the name “redlining.” The…

Portland, Oregon is the bastion of locally sourced and artisanal progressivism; where unconventional is the norm and where “post-Scandinavian folk-punk” is playing at the coffee shops. At least that is the perception received after watching the IFC television show Portlandia. The show starts off with a song with the lyrics, “the spirit of the nineties is alive in Portland,” and ends with the group of 20+ characters moving to the city to peruse it’s counter-culture friendly lifestyle. One…

Throughout this course we have learned and analyzed many topics and theories. We have delved deep into many problems from racial segregation to the current oppressive narrative in the United States of America. It is apparent that African American’s face problems much different than their white, majority, counterparts, and that this is due to a plethora of problems. The discussion will be about wealth, crime, and resources, and how political practices have led to problems in these areas inside…

states. Clinton has the edge in minority and non-white voting, but that only gives her districts around major cities, where most of them are located because of their socioeconomic status. This is due to racial policies that were implemented such a redlining. Trump won the votes by adding up all of the smaller rural and predominantly white counties,…

A suburb is a residential area located outside the main city but close enough for people to commute to work or visit the city easily (“Urbanization”). In suburbs, you can find houses, apartments, and sometimes small businesses like shops and restaurants. Suburbs usually have less noise and pollution compared to big cities, making them a quieter and often safer place to live. Transportation in suburbs can include roads for cars, buses, and sometimes trains or subways that connect them to the…

were stuck in the same Harlem/Long Island area because at this time redlining, blockbusting, and other things such as the Levittown incident were happening. No matter how rich a black man could be he would not be able to buy a house outside of the poor area he lived in which was the Harlem area because black would either be redlined, and be denied a loan and insurance for living in a poor area (Eisen, September 6). Along with redlining, blockbusting was also in effect which persuaded whites by…

Hyper-segregation consists when segregation permeates a race or ethnic group in a multidimensional fashion. This concept exists outside of simply segregation, taking it to a further level, by degrading multiple facets of a populations existence rather than just one area. The term hyper-segregation came about as a way for Douglas Massey and Nancy Denton to conceptualize a ghetto that was especially segregated. Some of the ways in which this term has been exhibited involve deeply rooted…

National Housing Act and is still used to this day. During the Great Depression, people were out of their jobs and being pulled from their homes because they couldn’t pay their loans. Back when this was first getting started, the FHA was known for redlining. This is when the home insuring agency hooked with the FHA doesn’t insure someone for living in a colored area or somewhere marked off their…