Tell me you're redlining without telling me you're redlining
The US DOT says it's planning to prioritize areas with high marriage & high birth rates for funding.
Our new analysis @urbaninstitute.bsky.social shows this would disproportionately fund:
—Communities with a higher white resident share
—Low-density areas
—High-income areas
—Car-dependent areas
Our new analysis @urbaninstitute.bsky.social shows this would disproportionately fund:
—Communities with a higher white resident share
—Low-density areas
—High-income areas
—Car-dependent areas
DOT’s Plan to Distribute Funding by Birth and Marriage Rates Would Leave Communities Most In Need Behind
If enacted, the new US Department of Transportation memo would prioritize funding to whiter, higher-income, more car-dependent areas over communities of color and people who walk, bike, or take public...
www.urban.org
February 10, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Tell me you're redlining without telling me you're redlining
Redlining is literally the opposite of gentrification, what the supposedly anti-gentrification people want is basically “redlining, but wokely”
June 28, 2026 at 5:27 PM
Redlining is literally the opposite of gentrification, what the supposedly anti-gentrification people want is basically “redlining, but wokely”
make sense, Roger Rabbit is a movie about redlining and destroying minority communities to run highways through them
July 17, 2026 at 1:32 AM
make sense, Roger Rabbit is a movie about redlining and destroying minority communities to run highways through them
Hello "climate redlining"
this is legitimately a big deal. zillow now putting climate risk on their website.
January 4, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Hello "climate redlining"
Redlining shaped the power grid. Communities of color are still paying the price.
Redlining shaped the power grid. Communities of color are still paying the price.
America's legacy of segregation is affecting who benefits—and doesn't—from the clean energy revolution.
www.motherjones.com
May 20, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Redlining shaped the power grid. Communities of color are still paying the price.
This is just redlining. Everyone who ever said “DEI went too far” needs to never speak again.
The Trump administration's efforts to end DEI programs is hitting some unexpected targets, including a nationwide effort planting shade trees in neighborhoods to reduce extreme heat.
Is planting trees 'DEI'? Trump administration cuts nationwide tree-planting effort
The Trump administration's efforts to end DEI programs is hitting some unexpected targets, including a nationwide effort planting shade trees in neighborhoods to reduce extreme heat.
www.npr.org
March 23, 2025 at 1:58 PM
This is just redlining. Everyone who ever said “DEI went too far” needs to never speak again.
*take accelerator redlining*
We need socialism to ensure the supremacy of bourgeois values
We need socialism to ensure the supremacy of bourgeois values
January 1, 2025 at 4:55 AM
*take accelerator redlining*
We need socialism to ensure the supremacy of bourgeois values
We need socialism to ensure the supremacy of bourgeois values
Fifty year mortgages are just a new redlining vehicle.
There are dozens of ways they can so easily be weaponized the way banks did with reverse redlining and OG redlining.
Actuarial tables. Life expectancies as approval conditions. Prepayment penalties. Variable interest rates. Securitization.
There are dozens of ways they can so easily be weaponized the way banks did with reverse redlining and OG redlining.
Actuarial tables. Life expectancies as approval conditions. Prepayment penalties. Variable interest rates. Securitization.
November 9, 2025 at 12:40 AM
Fifty year mortgages are just a new redlining vehicle.
There are dozens of ways they can so easily be weaponized the way banks did with reverse redlining and OG redlining.
Actuarial tables. Life expectancies as approval conditions. Prepayment penalties. Variable interest rates. Securitization.
There are dozens of ways they can so easily be weaponized the way banks did with reverse redlining and OG redlining.
Actuarial tables. Life expectancies as approval conditions. Prepayment penalties. Variable interest rates. Securitization.
KNOW THIS: Altadena is a predominantly African-American community community where Black families were redlined into. It’s not the Palisades, but losing homes, livelihoods & generational wealth is equally devastating.
Communities targeted by redlining have historic reasons to distrust government.
Communities targeted by redlining have historic reasons to distrust government.
January 12, 2025 at 12:12 AM
KNOW THIS: Altadena is a predominantly African-American community community where Black families were redlined into. It’s not the Palisades, but losing homes, livelihoods & generational wealth is equally devastating.
Communities targeted by redlining have historic reasons to distrust government.
Communities targeted by redlining have historic reasons to distrust government.
Alarming trend I've started to notice among boomer Berkeley NIMBYs of saying any housing policy they don't like is "redlining." Building multifamily housing in a wealthy neighborhood? Redlining. Insurers reluctant to write policies for multi-million dollar homes in the WUI? Also redlining.
May 29, 2026 at 3:20 PM
Alarming trend I've started to notice among boomer Berkeley NIMBYs of saying any housing policy they don't like is "redlining." Building multifamily housing in a wealthy neighborhood? Redlining. Insurers reluctant to write policies for multi-million dollar homes in the WUI? Also redlining.
Texas is drawing its new maps, and it’s worse than just gerrymandering. It’s redlining. Democrats need to fight back tooth and nail. Watch Rick Wilson explain: www.youtube.com/watch?v=619s...
July 31, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Texas is drawing its new maps, and it’s worse than just gerrymandering. It’s redlining. Democrats need to fight back tooth and nail. Watch Rick Wilson explain: www.youtube.com/watch?v=619s...
So apparently the AP Human Geography site is culling some of its "daily videos" for class use. A teacher tells me the videos on redlining and white flight are gone. In the screenshot below, you can see the Daily Videos start with no. 2 (no. 1 on this page was redlining, and it's gone now).
March 7, 2025 at 2:11 AM
So apparently the AP Human Geography site is culling some of its "daily videos" for class use. A teacher tells me the videos on redlining and white flight are gone. In the screenshot below, you can see the Daily Videos start with no. 2 (no. 1 on this page was redlining, and it's gone now).
"urban planners" are just people who made redlining a career, change my mind
March 18, 2026 at 4:23 PM
"urban planners" are just people who made redlining a career, change my mind
Redlining.
Morning doodle.
Morning doodle.
May 13, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Redlining.
Morning doodle.
Morning doodle.
this is just redlining! it's illegal! people should go to non-figurative prison over it!
The nation’s largest credit union rejected more than half its Black conventional mortgage applicants edition.cnn.com/2023/12/14/b...
December 14, 2023 at 6:35 PM
this is just redlining! it's illegal! people should go to non-figurative prison over it!
"reverse redlining" aka...intergration?
September 3, 2026 at 10:29 PM
"reverse redlining" aka...intergration?
Oh so you are saying redlining was bad? Thats very dismissive of BIPOC agency.
September 21, 2026 at 9:48 AM
Oh so you are saying redlining was bad? Thats very dismissive of BIPOC agency.
Praising redlining from first principles is what happens when your politics are entirely centered around what you think is or isn’t cool. If your politics aren’t material they’re reactionary
maybe I’ll get pilloried for like “not getting the joke” or whatever, but this is absolutely how, like, a comfortable percentage of Cool People think the dynamics of housing costs work and it fucking sucks
July 29, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Praising redlining from first principles is what happens when your politics are entirely centered around what you think is or isn’t cool. If your politics aren’t material they’re reactionary
its all just redlining never actually being addressed
September 20, 2026 at 10:53 PM
its all just redlining never actually being addressed
This is just devastating
Y’all Altadena was one of the few areas African-Americans could buy in during the redlining era
Whole neighborhoods of black equity and wealth gone
Y’all Altadena was one of the few areas African-Americans could buy in during the redlining era
Whole neighborhoods of black equity and wealth gone
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January 10, 2025 at 2:19 PM
This is just devastating
Y’all Altadena was one of the few areas African-Americans could buy in during the redlining era
Whole neighborhoods of black equity and wealth gone
Y’all Altadena was one of the few areas African-Americans could buy in during the redlining era
Whole neighborhoods of black equity and wealth gone
Til redlining is apparently a conspiracy theory and the way nearly every city was built before the 1950s is also a conspiracy theory, got it.
November 18, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Til redlining is apparently a conspiracy theory and the way nearly every city was built before the 1950s is also a conspiracy theory, got it.