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1 year, 2 months ago

How L.A.’s bird population is shaped by historic redlining and racist loan practices

LA Times

On a recent afternoon in L.A.’s Boyle Heights neighborhood, Christian Benitez and Eric M. Wood stood outside a corner liquor store searching for birds. “They’re all over the shrubbery in Boyle Heights,” said Wood, an associate professor of ecology at Cal State Los Angeles. Instead of the sparrows, ravens, common pigeons and a Cooper’s hawk the bird watchers spotted in …

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1 year, 11 months ago

Bank to pay $31M redlining settlement, DOJ’s largest ever

Associated Press

NEW YORK — The Justice Department accused Los Angeles-based City National Bank on Thursday of discrimination by refusing to underwrite mortgages in predominately Black and Latino communities, requiring the bank to pay more than $31 million in the largest redlining settlement in department history. The Justice Department says that between 2017 and 2020, City National avoided marketing and underwriting mortgages …

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1 year, 11 months ago

Bank to pay $31M redlining settlement, DOJ's largest ever

The Independent

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2 years, 8 months ago

Redlining tied to more oil, gas wells in urban areas, according to study

LA Times

Minority neighborhoods where residents were long denied home loans have twice as many oil and gas wells as mostly white neighborhoods, according to a new study that suggests ongoing health risks in vulnerable communities are at least partly tied to historical structural racism. Black and Latino residents have complained that they are disproportionately exposed to health risks — including heart …

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2 years, 8 months ago

Study: Redlining tied to more oil, gas wells in urban areas

Associated Press

Minority neighborhoods where residents were long denied home loans have twice as many oil and gas wells as mostly white neighborhoods, according to a new study that suggests ongoing health risks in vulnerable communities are at least partly tied to historical structural racism. Black and Latino residents have complained that they are disproportionately exposed to health risks — including heart …

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2 years, 9 months ago

Even many decades later, redlined areas see higher levels of air pollution

NPR

Even many decades later, redlined areas see higher levels of air pollution Enlarge this image toggle caption Reed Saxon/AP Reed Saxon/AP Neighborhoods that were subject to redlining in the 1930s tend to have higher levels of air pollution many decades later, a new study has found. Sponsor Message "Neighborhoods in those cities for which maps were drawn by the Home …

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3 years, 3 months ago

Urban heat islands in Atlanta highlight areas impacted by redlining

CNN

Atlanta CNN — On a warm September afternoon, Mona Scott sat on the front porch while her home baked like an oven. “So, it’s very important that we are at the table.” Na'Taki Osborne Jelks, assistant professor of environmental and health sciences at Spelman College, discusses Spelman's role in NOAA's Urban Heat Island campaign on September 4, 2021. People like …

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4 years, 4 months ago

Opinion: If you care about racial equality, this will disturb you

CNN

Editor’s Note: Lamell McMorris is the founding principal of Greenlining Realty USA, a real estate redevelopment firm aimed at redressing the effects of redlining. At a moment when the fatal inadequacies of our public health and public safety systems are finally, powerfully and painfully clear not just to Black Americans, it’s hard to imagine that anyone needs to be reminded …

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4 years, 6 months ago

How the rise of supermarkets left out black America

CNN

New York CNN Business — If you’re like most Americans, you probably think of going to the supermarket and stocking up on groceries as a normal thing, and you take it for granted. Some have described large grocers’ avoidance of predominately black areas as “supermarket redlining,” evoking post-New Deal federal policies designed to prevent black home ownership in white neighborhoods …

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