More Like this

1. Redlining Maps and Terrains of Sustainability: Interdisciplinary Mapping of Racialized Redlining to Present-Day Sustainability Agendas in HCI

   Heidi Biggs, Shellye Suttles (April 2023, Proceedings of the 2023 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2023))
2. Biggs, H., Suttles, S., Bardzell, S. Redlining Maps and Terrains of Sustainability: Interdisciplinary Mapping of Racialized Redlining to Present-Day Sustainability Agendas in HCI. Proceedings of the 2023 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2023). ACM

   Biggs, H; Suttles, S; Bardzell, S (April 2023, ACM)
3. The Legacy of Redlining: A Spatial Dynamics Perspective

   https://doi.org/10.1177/01600176221116566  

   Rey, Sergio Joseph; Knaap, Elijah (August 2022, International Regional Science Review)

   This paper investigates the long-term impacts of the federal Home Owners’ Loan Corporation (HOLC) mortgage risk assessment maps on the spatial dynamics of recent income and racial distributions in California metropolitan areas over the 1990-2010 period. We combine historical HOLC boundaries with modern Census tract data and apply recently developed methods of spatial distribution dynamics to examine if legacy impacts are reflected in recent urban dynamics. Cities with HOLC assessments are found to have higher levels of isolation segregation than the non-HOLC group, but no difference in unevenness segregation between the two groups of cities are found. We find no difference in income or racial and ethnic distributional dynamics between the two groups of cities over the period. At the intra-urban scale, we find that the intersectionality of residing in a C or D graded tract that is also a low-income tract falls predominately upon the minority populations in these eight HOLC cities. Our findings indicate that neighborhoods with poor housing markets and high minority concentrations rarely experience a dramatic change in either their racial and ethnic or socioeconomic compositions—and that negative externalities (e.g. lower home prices and greater segregation levels) emanate from these neighborhoods, with inertia spilling over into nearby zones. 

   more » « less
4. The Legacy of Redlining: A Geo-Spatiotemporal Analysis of Environmental Injustice in Portland, Oregon

   Gunn, W.; Rao, M. (December 2021, Transactions American Geophysical Union)
5. Redlining, greenlining: Discourses of race and nature in Home Owners Loan Corporation neighborhood appraisals

   https://doi.org/10.1177/26349825241254127  

   Walker, Rebecca_H; Mandal, Antara; Ramer, Hannah; Keeler, Bonnie_L; Derickson, Kate_D; DeBellis, Ruby (June 2024, Environment and Planning F)

   Studies drawing correlations between Home Owners Loan Corporation “redlining” maps and present-day environmental outcomes have raised public attention about the role of systemic racial discrimination in producing uneven outcomes in the urban environment. In this analysis, we draw on a novel data source—narrative descriptions of neighborhood characteristics included in the area descriptions that accompanied City Survey maps—to explore the mechanisms that historically link HOLC maps and disparate environmental quality. Focusing on nine mid-sized cities in the Midwest, we draw on a combined inductive and deductive coding approach to consider how perceived urban environmental quality and neighborhood racial demographics shaped assessments of neighborhood value and risk. In doing so, we illustrate the ways in which nature, class, and race were already coupled at the time of the HOLC City Survey. The area descriptions in the HOLC City Survey illustrate the ways in which this coupling became codified and reinforced over time through housing and environmental policies, the impacts of which we still struggle to disrupt today. 

   more » « less