redlining
or red-lin·ing
a discriminatory practice by which banks, insurance companies, etc., refuse or limit loans, mortgages, insurance, etc., within specific geographic areas, especially inner-city neighborhoods.
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How to use redlining in a sentence
You can draw a straight line from segregated communities and redlining to Medicaid policy, which says we’re going to pay less for the same service.
The lament of covid-19 caregivers in the nation’s safety-net hospitals: ‘What could be next?’ | Akilah Johnson | August 24, 2021 | Washington PostBig telecom companies stand to benefit the most from these provisions, even though a mandate to prevent practices known as “digital redlining” could prove costly by ensuring service providers don’t discriminate in where they expand networks.
Which Industries Stand to Gain From the $1.2T Infrastructure Bill—and Which Stand to Lose | Nik Popli | August 11, 2021 | TimeThese are the same communities that used redlining to shut out families of color decades ago.
‘Community Character’ Concerns Are a Veil – a Thin One | Al Abdallah | July 23, 2021 | Voice of San DiegoPotential admins now undergo additional training on redlining — or excluding people from certain neighborhoods — and diversity.
‘Buy Nothing’ groups: A place to share goods, services — and gratitude | Anying Guo | April 22, 2021 | Washington PostIn a neighborhood which has been subjected to redlining and racism, disregard by political leaders, and decades of neglect and disinvestment of capital, community revitalization is as complex a problem as you’ll ever find.
A community renaissance on Chicago’s South Side | Katie McLean | December 18, 2020 | MIT Technology Review
In short, redlining forced blacks into particular areas and then starved those areas of affordable capital.
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