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There is a higher prevalence of COVID-19 risk factors in historically “redlined” neighborhoods
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In Memorium: Remembering Alan Fisher, founding executive director of the California Reinvestment Coalition

September 20, 2021
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Racial Wealth Snapshot: Latino Americans

September 17, 2021

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Reports

Adding Robust Consideration of Race to Community Reinvestment Act Regulations: An Essential and Constitutional Proposal
Business Structure may have been a Barrier to the Paycheck Protection Program and Access to Credit
2020 HMDA Preliminary Analysis
Women-Owned Small Businesses In D.C Metro Region: Challenges & Resilience In A Time of Pandemic
Addressing the Needs of Black-Owned Businesses and Entrepreneurs
Landis’s Lease-to-Own Model & Black Homeownership
The COVID Pandemic And Its Impacts On Culturally Significant Businesses
Black Entrepreneurship’s Lethal Pre-Existing Condition: The Racial Wealth Divide During the COVID Crisis
Relationships Matter: Small Business and Bank Branch Locations

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14 Black and Woman-Owned Brands to Support This Month
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With COVID-19 taking a new toll, a poor Black community in Alabama awaits justice for a 2008 industrial disaster
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In memoriam: Lottie Lee Davis
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NCRC condemns attacks on Asian Americans
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Research
Adding Robust Consideration of Race to Community Reinvestment Act Regulations: An Essential and Constitutional Proposal
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Business Structure may have been a Barrier to the Paycheck Protection Program and Access to Credit
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2020 HMDA Preliminary Analysis
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CRA regulations, examination procedures should include explicit focus on race
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Civil Rights, Fair Housing And Consumer Groups Urge Congress to Advance Housing Investment and Equity in Historic Human Infrastructure Bill
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Morning Consult: Equity Should Be Required of the Entire Financial Sector, Not Just Banks
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Finance & Commerce: Regulator to start fresh on an anti-redlining rule
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USA Today: ‘Values Cannot be Words on a Wall’: PayPal CEO Dan Schulman on Why Corporations Must End Racial Discrimination
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The Kansas City Star: Nowhere in US can Minimum Wage Afford a ‘Fair Market Rent’ 2-Bedroom Home; Florida Among Worst States for Affordability

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Redlining and Neighborhood Health

Before the pandemic devastated minority communities, banks and government officials starved them of capital.

Lower-income and minority neighborhoods that were intentionally cut off from lending and investment decades ago today suffer not only from reduced wealth and greater poverty, but from lower life expectancy and higher prevalence of chronic diseases that are risk factors for poor outcomes from COVID-19, a new study shows.

The new study, from the National Community Reinvestment Coalition (NCRC) with researchers from the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee Joseph J. Zilber School of Public Health and the University of Richmond’s Digital Scholarship Lab, compared 1930’s maps of government-sanctioned lending discrimination zones with current census and public health data.

Table of Content

  • Executive Summary
  • Introduction
  • Redlining, the HOLC Maps and Segregation
  • Segregation, Public Health and COVID-19
  • Methods
  • Results
  • Discussion
  • Conclusion and Policy Recommendations
  • Citations
  • Appendix

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