Redlining is the practice of using color-coded maps to determine which areas of a city or town were considered desirable for investment and mortgage lending. This system was used to exclude Black residents from receiving support to buy their homes, leading to segregation and economic inequality. Green areas were considered the best, while undesirable areas were colored red and were predominantly Black.

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What Is Redlining

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What is redlining?

A) A practice by which real estate agents attempt to convince minority home buyers to live in neighborhoods outside of the redlined areas with more minorities and fewer Whites
B) This is the practice of towns or cities making neighborhood boundaries, formally separating White from Black neighborhoods.
C) To determine which homes were suitable for federal home loan support as part of the New Deal, the loan agency created a color-coded map. Green areas were predominantly White and thus considered the best; undesirable areas were colored red and were predominantly Black. This system excluded Black residents from receiving support to buy their homes.
D) After slavery was abolished, the federal government published and distributed maps with red states and blue states, denoting where African Americans were welcome to move or not.

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