• PillBugTheGreat@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    To offer a refinement, if I can, redlining is adjacent to this highway abuse, so, easy to join them; same racially driven bastardry, different technique.

    Redlining was a real estate / financial tool that kept certain homes on a map from having access to resources. Sort of like financial gerrymandering. It’s kinda cool, in a privileged way, to see a city’s ghetto map and a redlined map overlaid; there is little difference.

    Anyway, I couldn’t find a term for this neighborhood wrecking highway practice, but did find this article that goes into detail and links the book Dividing by Design.

    The Roads That Tear Communities Apart https://share.google/6G6B8K9VNck1Cb0ZW

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      1 month ago

      One more: I thought redlining also conveyed purposeful impediments to black home ownership, like in the refusal of mortgage applications.