Redlining
A discriminatory practice in which financial services are withheld from neighborhoods that have significant numbers of racial and ethnic minorities. (Source: Nadia Lathan, “50 years after being outlawed, redlining still drives neighborhood health inequalities”)
Restrictive covenants
A provision on a deed, mortgage or other recorded instrument that regulates the ownership or use of a parcel of real estate. Discriminatory restrictive covenants spread throughout the United States in the early twentieth century. Discriminatory restrictive covenants were intended to prevent people of color from moving into certain neighborhoods. Although they are now illegal […]