Redlining

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The “Housing Theory of Everything” describes how the current housing shortage is the root cause of many other issues we face: from wealth inequality, lower productivity and lower birthrates to climate change and obesity.   EconExtra is a series of posts that go beyond the textbook, relating current events and recent developments in economics to content standards, and providing resource suggestions to help you incorporate the current events into your lessons.     The Headline The housing shortages and skyrocketing housing costs in the US have appeared in the headlines and our weekly reading lists over the past year or more. This is true around the world.

Western housing shortages do not just prevent many from ever affording their own home. They also drive inequality, climate change, low productivity growth, obesity, and even falling fertility rates.

Economic inequality in the US can be traced in part back to the housing shortage. It's hard to hold a job or raise kids if you can't afford a home.

Land remains the starkest turf of bigotry in American life. Blacks have been kept out, locked in, preyed upon and segregated by their most basic need when slavery...

By Charlene Crowell, Center for Responsible Lending Photo by Doug Marlette The old adage, ‘the more things change, the more they stay the same’ seems somehow an apt description for what a growing number of communities are suffering: a lack of fair lending. In recent weeks and in varying locales, the issue of redlining has led […]

A state’s severe racial disparities are traced back to restrictive real estate covenants.

White households are 71% more likely to own their homes than Black households.

The wealth gap between Black and white Americans is examined in this installment of the “Unequal” series.

White households are 71% more likely to own their homes than Black households.

/PRNewswire/ -- Black and Hispanic Americans are being hit harder by the credit system, a recent survey from Credit Sesame finds. With poor credit impacting...

Eighty years after a segregation wall rose in Detroit, America remains divided. That's not an accident.

Author Gerald Van Dusen tells the story of Detroit's Birwood Wall: Hatred and Healing in the West Eight Mile Community. This isolated black enclave transformed a symbol of discrimination into an expression of hope and perseverance.

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The Detroit riot of 1967, The Great Rebellion, was Detroit's defining moment. Fifty years later, what have we learned?

The transportation secretary announces a first-of-its-kind pilot program aimed at helping reconnect cities and neighborhoods racially segregated or divided by road projects.

A plan to remove Interstate 375 will not bring back the rich history lost when the area was razed to make way for the new road running through the center of ...

We're taking a look at the history of the structure known as the 8 Mile Wall or the Birwood Wall.

In 1941, a developer in Detroit built the Birwood Wall, a barrier meant to separate Black residents from white residents. Eighty years later, it’s now believ...

A discussion and look back (or over) a wall built by developer in the 1940's to separate black and white residents.

Part of a series about labor, violence, and race relations during the pre- and post-war era.

Scholars have always placed two New Deal era federal agencies at the center of the racist policy that steered private mortgage lenders away from Black neighborhoods. However, new research paints a different picture.

In 1968, Congress passed the Fair Housing Act that made it illegal to discriminate in housing. Gene Demby of NPR’s Code Switch explains why neighborhoods are...