You're the one who's trying to make a serious claim based off of a TikTok video.
Google it you fkn lazy little twat.
There was no such thing as a credit rating back then, banks decided what areas they wanted to give out mortgages in based on the location and condition of the houses.
When you play Monopoly do you feel like all properties have an equal value, and then just never upgrade your more valuable properties? And then call the winner a racist?
If you had a chance to invest in coca cola or Ed's Chikkin Ranch, with three broken-down trucks in the front yard, do you think that they are equally valuable? Are they equally good investments?
If you have $5M to lend out to people who want mtgs, do you lend to 2 doctors buying $2.5M properties or a whole bunch of people buying trailers in a mobile home park?
Redlining maps have long been blamed for racial inequities in Black neighborhoods, but recent research shows that’s misleading.
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- Few people concerned with racial equality and the effects of racism on American cities are not familiar with the maps created by the Home Owners’ Loan Corporation (HOLC) in the late 1930s. In recent years, those maps have been repeatedly singled out as a major, or even themajor driving force behind today’s patterns of urban racial inequity, whether measured in terms of housing quality, environmental conditions, or health disparities. Nearly a hundred academic papers, and even more media articles, blogs, commentaries, and lesson guides have pointed to the maps as the roots of conditions as varied as abandoned housing, diabetes incidence, and lack of tree cover. But is this story true? What role, if any, did the maps actually play?
A closer look tells a very different story. But to tell that story, a little background is needed.
The HOLC and Its Maps
The Home Owners’ Loan Corporation was created in 1933 as a New Deal response to the greatest foreclosure crisis the United States had ever seen. The HOLC bought distressed home mortgage loans from banks and borrowed money from the U.S. Treasury to restructure the loans so the homeowners could stay in their homes. From June 1933 to June 1936, when the HOLC’s authority to make loans sunsetted, it refinanced roughly 1 million mortgages, or nearly one of every five existing nonfarm mortgages in the United States. The HOLC did not make mortgages to new homebuyers.
At the end of 1935, the HOLC began to hire local real estate professionals to make what it called “residential security” maps of their cities. Each city was divided into many small areas, which were then evaluated for housing, environmental, social, and economic conditions. Each area was classified as A (best, or green), B (blue), C (yellow), or D (worst, or red).
How Were the Maps Used?
Nobody knows exactly why the HOLC commissioned the maps. By the time the first maps were made, the HOLC was almost completely out of the lending business. Moreover, during the three years the HOLC bought mortgages and made loans, its racial track record was, for the time, remarkable; it bought and restructured large numbers of mortgages belonging to homeowners in the D areas, and most notably, provided a startling number of mortgages to struggling Black homeowners. The proportion of Black homeowners helped by the HOLC was 95 percent of the proportion of white homeowners helped.
Also, go fuck yourself and your revisionist history, TaiChiLiberal.
We have people like you in Canada right now trying to pretend that the residential schools for the first nations people were built as rape-paradises and to commit genocide aginst them. They want us to believe that every kid was raped and no one got an education there. And not only are they trying to push that BS narrative, they even tried to criminalize any attempt at clarification. They call it "residential school denialism" and our gov't was going to criminalize any denial of the 100% rape/genocide story.
In case you're uninformed about our rez schools (of course you are), when they were formed, boarding schools were common, first nations people had no fixed addresses and moved around seasonally, and they were a stone age culture. My great grandma was a teacher and she carried a gun while she rode her horse to school in the dark. In winter. When there were actual wolves still around. There was no Prius with A/C and a heater for her, and no cell phone to call the cops... there was just her, a horse, and a .32 calibre pistol.
Nikola Tesla graduated university in the same year as the first res school was started. So tell me, how racist and genocidal was it to try to educate stone-age people? They didn't even have fkn bronze. They lived in stone-age homes during the Canadian winter.
The rez school revisionist history BS is same shit that you're doing. You're looking at a revisionist history version of something that happened so long ago that the people who did it aren't alive anymore to defend themselves.