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Featured Resources on Urban Housing
- To Avoid Integration, Americans Built Barricades in Urban Space (The Atlantic, 20 June 2020) Urban inequality didn’t happen by accident.
Featured Data Sources on Redlining, Racism & Urban Housing
- Mapping Prejudice This research is showing what communities of color have known for decades. Structural barriers stopped many people who were not white from buying property and building wealth for most of the last century. In Minneapolis, these restrictions served as powerful obstacles for people of color seeking safe and affordable housing. They also limited access to community resources like parks and schools. Racial covenants dovetailed with redlining and predatory lending practices to depress homeownership rates for African Americans. Contemporary white residents of Minneapolis like to think their city never had formal segregation. But racial covenants did the work of Jim Crow in northern cities like Minneapolis.
- Segregated Seattle For most of its history Seattle was a segregated city, as committed to white supremacy as any location in America.
- Segregated Seattle: Restrictive Covenants Database Here is our database of racial restrictive covenants. Combing through the files of the King County Recorder's Office, we have uncovered 416 deeds and covenants containing racial restrictions that apply to scores of neighborhoods in Seattle and its suburbs. This is just a sample of the restrictions that once shaped the housing options for King County residents.
- Mapping Inequality: Redlining in New Deal America Mapping Inequality brings one of the country's most important archives to the public. HOLC's documents contain a wealth of information about how government officials, lenders, and real estate interests surveyed and ensured the economic health of American cities. And with the help of ongoing research, we continue to learn at what cost such measures were realized.
- Mapping Segregation in Washington DC This exhibit was launched in 2018 to mark the anniversaries of several milestones in the history of fair housing.
- Detroitography The group Detroitography has images and analysis of the 1939 Detroit redlining map and other cartographic studies related to social justice issues.
- Mapping Exclusion - Arlington, VA The project, Mapping Exclusion, is designed to identify and map racially restrictive covenants for Arlington County between 1900 and 1968. Although these legal clauses were not enforceable after 1948, they continued to be recorded in land records up until 1968.
- Mapping Segregation in Montgomery County, MD To advance the county’s commitment to racial equity, Montgomery Planning’s Historic Preservation Office, Research and Strategic Projects Division, and Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Team will build a mapping tool that shows historical patterns of segregation in Montgomery County.
Featured Resources on COVID-19
- COVID-19 Resources from the APA The novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic is having a significant impact on communities, and planners are on the front lines of response and recovery. APA is committed to providing resources, information, and tools to address your immediate needs and help you prepare for what is to come.
- Public Transit Response to Coronavirus or COVID-19 APTA continues to monitor the impact of the COVID-19 coronavirus, and the association is providing information resources to public transportation organizations in North America.
- Coronavirus (COVID-19) Updates, Education & Resources URISA) URISA Members are busy assisting their agencies with mitigation and response, providing critical location information.
