Racialized zoning, outlawed by the Supreme Court in 1917, was followed by single-family or exclusionary zoning, which restricted residents by socioeconomic class — a proxy for race in the U.S. Next ...

Part VII of our series on the history of Stoner Hill examines how the Home Owners Loan Corporation (HOLC) and the Federal Housing Administration (FHA) redlined portions of Stoner Hill ...

And since only 18% of Altadena’s roughly 42,700 residents are Black, that makes the impact disproportionate on an already ...

A Louisiana state law passed just last year bans the very policies that make New Orleans a sanctuary city, the only one in ...

Students explore redlining’s impact ... Communities would have these maps. Banks would have these maps, so there would be a drawing of a district. If there were communities that were African ...

A new database reveals exactly how xenophobia and ... In the 1930s, the federal government commissioned real estate agents to create maps grading the “residential security” of neighborhoods ...

The climate crisis isn’t just about the availability and cost of housing. It's also about location and quality.

Bourbon Street, the site of a deadly New Year’s Day attack, is closed to traffic at night, one of many measures intended to ...

That history begins most famously with the practice of redlining. Redlining, a New Deal-era technique that ... policies and redrawing their coverage maps to lower their risks in markets like ...