Keeping Democracy Alive with Burt Cohen

Keeping Democracy Alive with Burt Cohen


Redlining: Government Policy Makes Racism and Poverty Worse

November 13, 2018

It may not be as blatant as cross-burning but redlining is racism. Federal lending rules encourage banks to discriminate against mortgages for black people moving into white neighborhoods. While it was technically made against the law with the Fair Hou...