One line, two line, red line, blue line. Redlining was a policy of denying mortgages or other financial loans to people who lived in certain zones of a city, these were often people or color or really poor. The name redlining comes from the fact the Home Owners’ Loan Corporation created a map of the US that separated neighborhoods into colored zones. Blue and green were good and yellow and red were bad. As a result of this map, people who lived in the non-affluent zones were often arbitrarily denied mortgages. The start of redlining was in 1934, therefore the context of the situation was the second World and The Great Depression. While discriminatory loan practices existed long before redlining, this policy was the one to systematically put colored or poor people at a disadvantage and therefore lead to decaying urban areas. Redling began with the Home Owners’ Loan Corporation (HOLC) with their map of US neighborhoods in colors of blue, green, yellow, and red. Sorted from most affluent to least. While HOLC’s intention of wanting to stabilize the US house market was not all bad in theory, the use of disadvantaged people to serve as a stabilizer was. Chicago during the second World War had conditions that were much less than ideal; there was some lack of consumer goods as the whole city became a factory for weaponry. Amidst all this …show more content…
During the Depression white working-class family began losing their homes when they became unemployed. To ease this issue, the federal government began working on public houses that white families could stay in. There were also public houses for African Americans, but the houses for the white families were prioritized. Eventually, it became so that there was a surplus of white public houses and a demand for African American public houses. This demand eventually became so great that the housing authorities let the blacks occupy the white public