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Baseline Assessment of Public Housing Desegregation Cases: Cross-site Report

Released earlier this month, this new report from the Department of Housing and Urban Development presents an assessment of efforts by HUD to desegregate public housing as a voluntary response to suits filed by various groups at eight different urban sites citing discriminatory HUD policies. HUD commissioned the Urban Institute (see the September 9, 1999 Scout Report for Business and Economics) to...

https://www.huduser.gov/portal/publications/pubasst/baseline...
Neighborhood Segregation in Single-Race and Multirace America: A Census 2000 Study of Cities and Metropolitan Areas

For the first time, the Census 2000 questionnaire allowed persons to identify with more than one racial group. As a result, demographers had the opportunity to examine segregation indices between mixed raced groups and persons who identify with a single race. Written by William H. Frey of the University of Michigan and Dowell Myers of the University of Southern California, "Neighborhood...

https://www.censusscope.org/FreyWPFinal.pdf
Moving the Line: Shifting Borders and Disparities in American Cities

Created by Parsons School of Design student Joe Steele, Moving the Line: Shifting Borders and Disparities in American Cities is an interactive data visualization project exploring the relationship between "interpersonal prejudice" and "institutional causes" of discrimination. The resource begins by providing a brief history of redlining, a process defined as "the selective denial of credit and...

https://jsteele2003.github.io/msdv_thesis/redlining/dist/ind...
Not Even Past: Social Vulnerability and the Legacy of Redlining

Long-standing subscribers may remember the 11-04-2016 Scout Report feature Mapping Inequality, a project from the University of Richmond's Digital Scholarship Lab that explored how the Home Owners' Loan Corporation's loan risk maps facilitated a racist lending system called "redlining." Now, readers can expand on the historical context provided by this and other related resources (for example, ...

https://dsl.richmond.edu/socialvulnerability/
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