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The Long Arm of Housing Segregation

By Erik Loomis

In General

On March 12, 2022

This is one of those studies that demonstrates things already well known by scholars of the relevant fields such as environmental history and environmental justice, but since it comes out of STEM fields, it gets the attention of the media. In any case though, it's...

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Complicating Redlining

By Erik Loomis

On September 22, 2021

Very interesting piece on how the story we tell about redlining and postwar housing loans is a bit more complicated than previously discussed. But new research shows that the maps.

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Redlining’s Legacy

By Erik Loomis

On March 30, 2018

Redlining, the mid-twentieth century federal effort to determine home loan viability based upon the racial makeup of neighborhoods, both reflected long standing white supremacy and created new structures of white.