Redlining, Health, and Voting

Speaking of Race

Did you know that how your neighborhood was assessed by a government agency over 70 years ago had an impact on your health and even your voting rights today? In this episode we talk about how the Home Owners Loan Corporation gave systemic racism in the U.S. a huge boost with their neighborhood ratings from the 1930s to the 1950s! Script: http://speakingofrace.ua.edu/uploads/1/1/0/5/110557873/redlining_health_and_voting.pdf Sources: AP-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research. (9/23/2020). Growing Disapproval of Protests Against Police. Retrieved from https://apnorc.org/?post_type=project&p=2761 Herndon, A. W. (9/26/2020). How a Pledge to Dismantle the Minneapolis Police Collapsed. The New York Times. Retrieved from https://nyti.ms/2S0hDRJ Hoffman, J.S., V. Shandas, and N. Pendleton (1/13/2020). The Effects of Historical Housing Policies on Resident Exposure to Intra-Urban Heat; A Study of 108 US Urban Areas. Climate 8(12). Available at: https://www.mdpi.com/2225-1154/8/1/12/pdf https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/article-abstract/2747697 https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/1476-069X-8-50 Jones, B. (5/26/2020). Coronavirus Death Toll is Heavily Concentrated in Democratic Congressional Districts. Retrieved from: https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2020/05/26/coronavirus-death-toll-is-heavily-concentrated-in-democratic-congressional-districts/ Kolbert, E. (6/20/2016). Drawing the Line–How redistricting turned America from blue to red. The New Yorker. Retrieved from: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/06/27/ratfcked-the-influence-of-redistricting Kranish, M. and R. O’Harrow. (1/23/2016). Inside the Government’s Racial Bias Case Against Donald Trump’s Company, and How He Fought It. Retrieved from: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/inside-the-governments-racial-bias-case-against-donald-trumps-company-and-how-he-fought-it/2016/01/23/fb90163e-bfbe-11e5-bcda-62a36b394160_story.html Lockwood, B. (6/16/2020). The History of Redlining. Retrieved from: https://www.thoughtco.com/redlining-definition-4157858 McGhee F. (9/5/2018). The most important Housing Law Passed in 1968 Wasn’t the Fair Housing Act. Retrieved from https://shelterforce.org/2018/09/05/the-most-important-housing-law-passed-in-1968-wasnt-the-fair-housing-act/ Plumer, B., N. Popovich, and B. Palmer. (8/24/2020). How Decades of Racist Housing Policy Left Neighborhoods Sweltering. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/08/24/climate/racism-redlining-cities-global-warming.html Remigio, Richard V., et al. (2019). Association of extreme heat events with hospital admission or mortality among patients with end-stage renal disease. JAMA Network Open 2.8. Retrieved from: Richardson, J. et al. National Community Reinvestment Coalition: Redlining and Neighborhood Health. Retrieved from: https://ncrc.org/holc-health/ Schifano, Patrizia, et al. (2009). Susceptibility to heat wave-related mortality: a follow-up study of a cohort of elderly in Rome. Environmental Health 8.1: 50. Retrieved from: Stone, B., Hess, J. J., & Frumkin, H. (2010). Urban form and extreme heat events: are sprawling cities more vulnerable to climate change than compact cities?. Environmental health perspectives, 118(10), 1425-1428. Retrieved from: https://ehp.niehs.nih.gov/doi/full/10.1289/ehp.0901879 Wines, M. (6/27/2019). What is Gerrymandering? And How Does it Work? Retrieved from: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/27/us/what-is-gerrymandering.html Wong, K. V., Paddon, A., & Jimenez, A. (2013). Review of world urban heat islands: Many linked to increased mortality. Journal of Energy Resources Technology, 135(2). Retrieved from: https://asmedigitalcollection.asme.org/energyresources/article-abstract/135/2/022101/365904/Review-of-World-Urban-Heat-Islands-Many-Linked-to?redirectedFrom=fulltext