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Redlining

Urban Cipher game teaches players the effects of redlining

by Amy Scott
Jul 1, 2024
"We're rolling the same thing, but we're getting different results" — that's a valuable experience, says creator Lawrence Brown.
Lawrence Brown, creator of Urban Cipher, explains how racially coded federal maps dictated lending practices in cities like Baltimore.
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Skin in the Game

How the video game Dot's Home was adapted for the stage

by David Brancaccio and Erika Soderstrom
Mar 19, 2024
"Dot's Home Live" has been performed in Detroit in an effort to share the game's housing rights story with the community.
The video game Dot's Home has been downloaded more than half a million times on phones and computers. But co-creator Christina Rosales knew that games are often played alone, and she wanted to bring the production to the “next level.”
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2024 Oscar-Nominated Documentary Shorts

Arlo Washington is the barber — and banker — of Little Rock

by David Brancaccio and Alex Schroeder
Mar 7, 2024
Washington's mission to bring economic justice to Arkansas is on display in the Oscar-nominated film "The Barber of Little Rock."
"If you can have a trade and a skill that's essential and needed, and you also have access to an opportunity, then you're able to create a sustainable, profitable and scalable business for yourself as an entrepreneur," Arlo Washington said.
Courtesy Story Syndicate
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Golden Promises

If reparations aren't politically viable, what's the next best thing?

by Lee Hawkins and Alex Schroeder
Jan 5, 2024
Scholars say local action directed at improving access to housing, health care and education are more likely to pass than cash payments.
Many Black families were excluded from suburbs that were rapidly growing in the '50s and '60s.
Illustration: Dylan Miettinen/Marketplace | Photo: Courtesy USC Libraries. “Dick” Whittington Photography Collection
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Race and Economy

New federal programs aim to shrink the racial housing gap

by Justin Ho
Jun 20, 2022
The homeownership rate among Black Americans is 42%. For white Americans, it's more than 70%.
Stefani Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images
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Inequality by design: How redlining continues to shape our economy

by Amy Scott
Apr 16, 2020
A traveling exhibit connects the racist housing policies of the past to the inequities of today.
Nathan Connolly, a professor of history at Johns Hopkins University, stands in front of the Undesign the Redline exhibit at Impact Hub Baltimore.
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Shelf Life

In Baltimore, segregation can be felt even in your wallet

by Kimberly Adams and Sean McHenry
Jun 7, 2019
One journalist spent years reporting on segregation in Baltimore, Maryland. He found that segregated communities can shape our economic futures.
A mural of Freddie Gray near the location where he was arrested is pictured in Baltimore, Maryland in 2016.
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Barriers to homeownership still exist for people of color

by Kai Ryssdal
Feb 15, 2018
A report from Reveal looks at racial discrimination in the mortgage business and the legacy of redlining.
A 1937 map of Philadelphia shows redlining of neighborhoods.
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How federal policy from the 1930s continues to harm Philadelphia and other cities

by David Brancaccio
Jan 11, 2018
Real estate appraisers would negatively evaluate areas if people of color lived there.
A man walks into a heroin encampment in the Kensington neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
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In Detroit, a risky alternative to mortgages

by Lewis Wallace
Oct 6, 2016
With lending unavailable, home buyers have turned to an option with few protections.
A house that's for sale on a land contract in Detroit. It's common for a house to need a gut rehab.
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