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Redlining: History, Regions & Measurement

Redlining is a discriminatory practice from the United States, in which financial services are withheld from neighborhoods that have significant numbers of racial and ethnic minorities. Redlining has mostly been directed against African Americans, as well as Mexican Americans in the Southwestern United States, Jewish Americans, and Italian Americans. The…

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Redlining topic overview

The analysis highlights History, Regions and Measurement as prominent areas in the source structure around Redlining.

Related topics
141
Source areas
5
Connected nodes
146
Extracted relationships
250
Concept neighborhoods
57
Bridge connections
146

What this topic covers Research coverage

Source areas are shown by the number of related topics found in each part of the analysis. Use smaller areas too: they can reveal specialized angles and content gaps.

Overview · 67 topics
Current issues · 26 topics
History · 23 topics
Efforts to end · 19 topics
Strategies to reverse effects of redlining · 6 topics

Smaller areas are not necessarily less important. They contain fewer connections in this analysis and can be useful for finding specialized angles or coverage gaps.

Explore all related topics Closing gaps

Browse the complete topic structure, not only the most central items. Less prominent entities and concepts can reveal missing angles, specialized context and useful research gaps. Each item opens a new analysis centered on that subject.

Overview

History

Efforts to end

Current issues

Strategies to reverse effects of redlining

Advanced semantic analysis

Deeper signals for content research, entity SEO and topical coverage. The plain-language headings explain what each technical view is useful for.

How Redlining connects Entity context

The extracted context around Redlining shows recurring relationship patterns in the source. For example, Redlining → Advanced Study, America Reflects Racist Policy, Amy, April, Archived, CNNMoney, CS1, Egan, Fair Housing Equal Opportunity, File, From, Hillier, HOLC Maps, How Air Pollution Across, HUD, Institute, Intro, ISSN, January, June Another extracted example is Redlining → African-Americans, American, American Lung Association, Asian, BC, Black, Clean Air Act, Columbia University's College, Despite, Environmental Science, Grays Ferry, Hispanic, If, It, Kyung Hwa Jung's, Moreover, Neighborhoods, New York City, NO, NO2. Use these groups to spot repeated connection types before inspecting the individual relationships.

Redlining

Top relations

related to External links · 43
Redlining → Advanced Study, America Reflects Racist Policy, Amy, April, Archived, CNNMoney, CS1, Egan, Fair Housing Equal Opportunity, File, From, Hillier, HOLC Maps, How Air Pollution Across, HUD, Institute, Intro, ISSN, January, June
related to Environmental racism · 38
Redlining → African-Americans, American, American Lung Association, Asian, BC, Black, Clean Air Act, Columbia University's College, Despite, Environmental Science, Grays Ferry, Hispanic, If, It, Kyung Hwa Jung's, Moreover, Neighborhoods, New York City, NO, NO2
related to history · 34
Redlining → African-American, Board, Chief Land Economist, Declining, Ely, Federal Home Loan Bank, Federal Housing Administration, FHA, FHLBB, HOLC, Home Owners' Loan Corporation, Homer Hoyt, In, Institute, It, Land Economics, National Association, National Housing Act, On, Public Utilities
related to Regulatory lawsuits · 28
Redlining → AB, According, African Americans, Alabama, An, Associated Bank, Chicago, Community State Bank, Department, DOJ, Eric Schneiderman, Evans Bank, First United Security Bank, Following, Housing, HUD, In May, Latino, Michigan, Milwaukee
related to Community organizations · 21
Redlining → America, Bill Clinton, Chicago's African-American, Chicago's South Shore, Council, Founded, Illinois, Illinois Department, In, Insurance, NPA, On August, One, Presidential, SACCC, ShoreBank, South Austin, South Austin Coalition Community, South Austin's, This
related to Legislation · 20
Redlining → According, Act, Consumer Credit Protection Act, Department, ECOA, Equal Opportunity, Fair Housing, Fair Housing Act, Housing, In, It, October, The Act, The ECOA, The Equal Credit Opportunity, The Fair Housing Act, The Office, This, United States, Urban Development
related to Digital redlining · 15
Redlining → American-born, Christian, Digital, Facebook, Facebook's, Fair Housing Act's, For, Hispanic, Housing, HUD, March, This, United States Department, Urban Development, While
related to Redlining and health inequality · 13
Redlining → According, America, Due, General Internal Medicine, Health, It, Journal, National Academy, Proceedings, Research, Sciences, United States, Wealth
related to Race wealth gap · 8
Redlining → According, American Economic Journal, HOLC, Racial Wealth Gap, The, These, Those, United States
is a · 6
Redlining → discriminatory practice from the United States, extension of the historical housing discrimination practice of redlining to include an ability to discriminate against vulnerable classes of society using algorithms, overcrowding of minority groups into neighborhoods that do not boast adequate housing to sustain burgeoning populations, process of restricting the supply of political information with assumptions about demographics and present or past opinions, spatially discriminatory practice among credit card issuers, term used to refer to the practice of creating and perpetuating inequities between racial

Important terminology

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Important terminology

neighborhoods communities racial housing health black minority community united bank states white banks credit loans also practices areas cities discrimination

Redlining relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples

TTTA extracted 250 structured relationships around Redlining. Examples in this analysis include Redlining → is a → discriminatory practice from the United States and Redlining → is a → spatially discriminatory practice among credit card issuers. The table shows each extracted connection, where it came from and its confidence.

SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
Redliningis adiscriminatory practice from the United States0.90text
Redliningis aspatially discriminatory practice among credit card issuers0.90text
Redliningis aterm used to refer to the practice of creating and perpetuating inequities between racial0.90text
Redliningis aextension of the historical housing discrimination practice of redlining to include an ability to discriminate against vulnerable classes of society using algorithms0.90text
Redliningis aprocess of restricting the supply of political information with assumptions about demographics and present or past opinions0.90text
Redliningis aovercrowding of minority groups into neighborhoods that do not boast adequate housing to sustain burgeoning populations0.90text
Wells Fargo have shown that they treat black mortgage applicants differently when they are buying homes in white neighborhoods than when buying homes in black neighborhoods by offering them subprimeinstance ofLending institutions0.80text
predatory loans when black residents tryinstance ofLending institutions0.80text
integrate neighborhoods.The inequality in loaning extends past residential to commercial loans as wellinstance ofLending institutions0.80text
Laura Pulidoinstance ofshowing an insensitivity to ethnic diversity in prevention efforts and AIDS health services.Environmental justice scholars0.80text
Department Head of Ethnic Studiesinstance ofshowing an insensitivity to ethnic diversity in prevention efforts and AIDS health services.Environmental justice scholars0.80text
Professor at the University of Oregoninstance ofshowing an insensitivity to ethnic diversity in prevention efforts and AIDS health services.Environmental justice scholars0.80text

Related concept clusters Concept neighborhoods

The concept neighborhoods around Redlining bring nearby vocabulary together. In this analysis, examples include Health, States and United. Use the clusters to find adjacent concepts and terminology that may deserve separate research.

  • Redlining
    • Health
    • States
    • United
    • Housing
    • Economic
    • Neighborhoods
    • Racial
    • Communities
    • Outcomes
    • Also
    • Community
    • Minority
  • redlining
    • Health
    • States
    • United
    • Housing
    • Economic
    • Neighborhoods
    • Racial
    • Communities
    • Outcomes
    • Also
    • Community
    • Minority
  • discriminatory
    • Practices
    • Racial
    • Lending
    • States
    • United
    • Act
    • Economic
    • Housing
    • Banks
    • Mortgage
    • Redlining
    • Neighborhoods
  • united states
    • United
    • Cities
    • Housing
    • Services
    • American
    • Urban
    • Lending
    • Bank
    • Wealth
    • Also
    • Discrimination
    • Practices
  • financial services
    • Communities
    • Minority
    • States
    • Health
    • United
    • Community
    • Insurance
    • Wealth
    • Loans
    • American
    • New
    • Outcomes
  • racial
    • States
    • United
    • Banks
    • Redlining
    • Economic
    • Groups
    • Discrimination
    • Cities
    • Housing
    • Insurance
    • Communities
    • Areas
  • southwestern united states
    • United
    • Cities
    • Housing
    • Services
    • American
    • Urban
    • Lending
    • Bank
    • Wealth
    • Also
    • Discrimination
    • Practices
  • credit
    • Loans
    • Higher
    • Rates
    • Insurance
    • Banks
    • White
    • Bank
    • Minority
    • American
    • Act
    • Neighborhoods
    • Also

Connections between topic areas Semantic bridges

For Redlining, one of the stronger structural bridges in this analysis connects Redlining with Overview. Bridges highlight paths between different parts of the map and can reveal research angles that are easy to miss in a flat list.

Min side: 3
RedliningOverview · splits 79 ⟂ 68
RedliningCurrent issues · splits 120 ⟂ 27
RedliningHistory · splits 123 ⟂ 24
RedliningEfforts to end · splits 127 ⟂ 20
RedliningStrategies to reverse effects of redlining · splits 140 ⟂ 7

Map overview Semantic statistics

Redlining

Nodes147
Edges146
Triples250
Avg. degree1.99
Density0.013605
Components1

Source & methodology

TTTA analyzes the structure around Redlining to surface related topics, entities, relationships, concept neighborhoods and bridge connections. Use the map to explore areas such as History, Regions & Measurement, including less central topics that may reveal useful research gaps. Automatically extracted connections are research leads rather than rewritten encyclopedia content.

Source: Wikipedia — Redlining · EN edition · Analysis: TopicsToTalkAbout

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