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 * We are editing the Redlining Wikipedia Page. The group is Sam Stovitz and Maeve Kotelly

Environmental Racism[edit]
Communities of color disproportionately experience asthma due to redlining policies.

Political Redlining[edit]
Political redlining is the denial of political information or political engagement to certain groups based on demographic assumptions. Minority populations are the most likely to be victims of political redlining. An example of political redlining in the form of unethical voter ID laws can be found in Georgia’s “exact match” system. This system requires voting status to be ceased if the name on their ID or Social Security does not match the name written on their voter registration form exactly. This law hindered voters in majority minority and democratic areas. Of the 51,000 individuals affected in 2018, 80 percent of them were black.

The Trump campaign targeted African Americans in an attempt to to discourage them from voting.

In 2013, the Supreme Court weakened the Voter Rights Act. Due to this, burdens were disproportionately placed on racial minorities. Stricter voter identification laws, narrower voting times, and incredibly specific voter registration rules have made voting much less accessible.

Mortgages[edit]
A recent case study was conducted in which a black woman and her white husband were attempting to get an appraisal for their house. They received one appraisal while both of them in the house, and then another appraisal when only the white man was home. The appraisal was much higher when the black wife was not home.

The effects of reverse redlining led, in part, led to housing market crash and the 2008 financial crisis.

Covid-19
Covid-19 disproportionately harms redlined communities. Redlined neighborhoods throughout the United States have higher rates of diabetes, obesity, hypertension, kidney disease, asthma, and stroke. These are known to be risk factors for more severe cases of the coronavirus. People in redlined neighborhoods are more vulnerable to life threatening cases of Covid-19. The correlation between redlining and negative health outcomes can be observed when combining the spatial distribution of mortality with the redlining maps for the Chicago area. Because of the socioeconomic impacts of redlining policies on historically redlined neighborhoods, incidence of COVID-19 is higher. This exposes the far reaching effects that the 1930s policies continue to play today in assuring racial segregation.