After Redlining Audiobook Libro.fm

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Focusing on Chicagos West Side After Redlining illuminates how urban activists were able to change banks behavior to support investment in communities that they had once abandoned

American banks to their eternal discredit long played a key role in disenfranchising nonwhite urbanites and through redlining blighting the very city neighborhoods that needed the most investment Banks long showed little compunction in aiding and abetting blockbusting discrimination and outright theft from nonwhites They denied funds to entire neighborhoods or actively exploited them to the benefit of suburban whitesan economic white flight to sharpen the pain caused by the demographic one

And yet the dynamic between banks and urban communities was not static and positive urban development supported by banks became possible In After Redlining Rebecca K Marchiel illuminates how exactly urban activists were able to change some banks behavior to support investment in communities that they had once abandoned The leading activists arose in an area hit hard by banks discriminatory actions and politics Chicagos West Side A multiracial coalition of low and moderateincome city residents this Saul Alinskyinspired group championed urban reinvestment And amazingly it worked their efforts inspired national action culminating in the federal Home Mortgage Disclosure Act and the Community Reinvestment Act

While the battle for urban equity goes on After Redlining provides a blueprint of hope