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- Title
Redlining in Lynchburg.
- Authors
ABELL, JOHN D.
- Abstract
Lynchburg, Virginia's experience with racial injustice has deep roots in the institution of slavery and runs at least through the period of Jim Crow segregation, with real estate redlining in the 1930s playing an outsized role. The federal housing policies of the Home Owners' Loan Corporation (HOLC) in 1933, designed to avert the economic catastrophe that was unfolding during the Great Depression, set in motion one of the largest wealth building opportunities in human history. Unfortunately, those policies were openly racist in their intent and implemented in ways that specifically precluded blacks from being able to benefit from them in any significant way. This paper analyzes Lynchburg's experience with those HOLC policies; drawing upon the resources of the Mapping Inequality project and its interactive HOLC security maps and area designations. The details of those area designations allow for an assessment at the neighborhood and census tract level that sheds light on the socioeconomics of Lynchburg in both the 1930s and present day, focusing on the following areas: racial distribution, income, homeownership, and home sales values.
- Subjects
LYNCHBURG (Va.); SEGREGATION of African Americans; REAL property; HOME sales; HOME ownership; POPULATION geography
- Publication
Virginia Social Science Journal, 2019, Vol 53, p5
- ISSN
0507-1305
- Publication type
Article