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This resource page offers articles, websites, and videos for those who are interested in learning more about mortgage discrimination in depth.
Overview of Mortgage Discrimination:
Articles:
“Fair Lending” by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development https://www.hud.gov/program_offices/fair_housing_equal_opp/fair_lending
“History of Fair Housing” by U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
https://www.hud.gov/program_offices/fair_housing_equal_opp/aboutfheo/history
“Mortgage Discrimination” by the Federal Trade Commission
https://consumer.ftc.gov/articles/mortgage-discrimination
“What Is Lending Discrimination?” by Denny Ceizyk
https://www.lendingtree.com/home/mortgage/what-is-lending-discrimination/
“What Is Redlining?” By Candace Jackson
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/17/realestate/what-is-redlining.html
“Hidden In Old Home Deeds, A Segregationist Past” By Julie Rose (NPR)
https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=122484215
“Mortgage discrimination: Does it still exist?” By Mortgage Fit
“THE HOLC MAPS: HOW RACE AND POVERTY INFLUENCED REAL ESTATE
PROFESSIONALS’ EVALUATION OF LENDING RISK IN THE 1930S”
https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w28146/w28146.pdf
Books:
Charles Abrams, Forbidden Neighbors: A Study of Prejudice in Housing (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1955).
City Roots Community Land Trust and Yale Environmental Protection Clinic. Confronting
Racial Covenants: How They Segregated Monroe County and What to Do About Them.
Rochester, NY: City Roots Community Land Trust. 2020.
Websites:
North Carolina Office of Administrative Hearings
https://www.oah.nc.gov/civil-rights-division/housing-discrimination
National Fair Housing Association
https://nationalfairhousing.org/
Videos:
Housing Segregation and Redlining in America: A Short History | Code Switch | NPR
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5FBJyqfoLM
One hour documentary inspired by the Mapping Prejudice Project:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWQfDbbQv9E
Systemic Racism Explained
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YrHIQIO_bdQ
Other Mortage Discrimination Websites:
Mapping Inequality: Redlining in New Deal America
https://dsl.richmond.edu/panorama/redlining/#loc=5/39.1/-94.58
Mapping Prejudice
https://mappingprejudice.umn.edu/index.html
The Lasting Legacy Of Redlining
By Ryan Best and Elena Mejía
https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/redlining/
Hacking into History: Discovering Racial Covenants in Durham Property Deeds
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