New and Old #47

Friday roundup and commentary

Redlining Didn’t Happen Quite the Way We Thought It Did, Governing, Jake Blumgart, September 21, 2021

But new research shows that the maps very probably did not guide private lenders or the Federal Housing Administration (FHA), which clearly engaged in racist lending practices all on their own. The HOLC [the agency that drew the maps and is commonly blam…