Researchers at Case Western Reserve University have analyzed archival maps and documents to determine what motived government agencies and private financial firms to redline certain Ohio neighborhoods in the 1930s and 40s.
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San Antonio has many economically segregated neighborhoods. Historically the city has dealt with high poverty rates and low education among communities of color. Much of this can be attributed to the federal government’s redlining practices after The Great Depression.
The collapse of the subprime mortgage market has created depression-like conditions in the housing market and driven the economy to the brink of recession, but many of those who call formore federal regulation fail to recognize that earlier and morecomprehensive regulatory efforts did little to deter housing marketproblems and in some cases may have made them worse.