Abstract Following the Great Depression and related home foreclosures, the federal
government established new agencies to facilitate access to affordable home mortgages …

Background Asthma disproportionately affects communities of colour in the USA, but the
underlying factors for this remain poorly understood. In this study, we assess the role of …

As in economics, racial discrimination has long been a focus of research in sociology. Yet
the disciplines traditionally have differed in how they approach the topic. While some studies …

Problem, research strategy, and findings: Historical patterns of discrimination and
disinvestment have shaped the current landscape of vulnerability to heat in US cities but are …

We show that the Federal Housing Administration (FHA), from its inception in the 1930s, did
not insure mortgages in low income urban neighborhoods where the vast majority of urban …

Redlining was a racially discriminatory housing policy established by the federal
government's Home Owners' Loan Corporation (HOLC) during the 1930s. For decades …

Racist and discriminatory federal, state, and local housing policies significantly contribute to
disparities in cardiovascular disease incidence and mortality for individuals that self-identify …

Public health approaches to crime and injury prevention are increasingly focused on the
physical places and environments where violence is concentrated. In this study, our aim is to …

In the past decade, the Home Owners' Loan Corporation's (HOLC) so-called 'redlining'maps
have gone from a niche corner of urban historical scholarship to the centre of mainstream …

Over the last two years, the United States has observed, with some horror, the explosion and
collapse of entire segments of the housing market, especially those driven by subprime and …