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Understanding redlining and how it kept communities of color from homeownership

May 18, 2023

In this article, Molly Grace from Business Insider breakdown redlining and discusses how homeownership has long helped middle class Americans build wealth. Grace shares the impact of redlining, and speaks to Anika Goss, DFC’s president and CEO, about how the impact of redlining went beyond making it difficult for people of color to get mortgages.

Goss said: “These are also places that are concentrated poverty, concentrated environmental contaminants and pollutants, and poor infrastructure and poor water quality, all of the other things that compound a community that prevents people from thriving.”

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