![]() Nowhere is infrastructure so obviously divisive as with the vast interstate highway system. It is seriously doubted whether there is a single block in the area which does not contain detrimental racial elements … It is hazardous residential territory and is accorded a general medial red grade – Original FHA evaluator report for Boyle Heights, California This is a ‘melting pot’ area and is literally honeycombed with diverse and subversive racial elements. Original assessment documents unearthed by researchers at the T-Races project reveal the cold, casually racist way in which data collectors consigned vast neighbourhoods to neglect and poverty: The seeds of the future ghettos of America had been sown.įHA maps were created for every major city in the US. Developers avoided these areas and concentrated investment into white areas, and services stagnated. Specifically, it would be impossible to secure federally backed mortgages, a sort of scarlet letter branded across huge swaths of the city. If your neighbourhood had the misfortune to be “redlined”, it was often doomed to a future of stillborn investment and decay.
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