When Cynthia Brothers began her research for the Wing Luke Museum’s new exhibit, she didn’t know the extent of the city’s history of redlining, and how it continues to affect communities today. “I’m ...

(TNS) — Standing on the banks of the Duwamish Waterway, Adrienne Hampton could see before her the manifestations of a legacy of pollution. Low-flying planes descended into King County, Wash., ...

Diane Sugimura’s family moved to Seattle in 1955 when redlining — the discriminatory practice of effectively barring certain racial groups from securing housing in certain areas by refusing them loans ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Roger Valdez writes about housing economics and policy. Last week I read a post at National Geographic titled, “Newly Released ...

This is your first of three free stories this month. Become a free or sustaining member to read unlimited articles, webinars and ebooks. Like every other U.S. city touched by New Deal housing policies ...

King County Councilmember Jeanne Kohl-Welles recently introduced a motion requesting the county executive to provide recommendations to restore “justice for race-based restrictive real estate ...

A New Jersey-based bank accused by the Justice Department of redlining to avoid making loans in predominantly Black and Latino neighborhoods agreed Wednesday to create a $12 million homeownership fund ...

My economist father once described the difference between the Soviet Union (the bear) and the US (the eagle) in the Cold War days, as this: the former locks its dissenters in and the latter locks them ...

Decades of redlining — a longstanding banking practice that blocked people of color from getting mortgages — continue to perpetuate racial and socioeconomic inequality in the San Francisco Bay Area ...

On a 1938 map of Milwaukee created for a federal agency, assessors shaded 19 areas red, marking them as a “hazardous” risk for home loans or insurance. A set of forms accompanying the map evaluated ...