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Mapping racial covenants in Broome County one BU class at a time
16 Jan 2026 10:20 GMT
Jan. 16, 2026, 5:01 a.m. ET
A Binghamton University project has uncovered over 1,000 historic racial covenants in Broome County deeds.
These restrictive clauses, some dating to the early 1900s, prohibited property sales to specific racial and ethnic groups …
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Before Trump Was a Racist Commander-in-Chief, He Was a Racist Real Estate Executive
24 Dec 2025 03:44 GMT
… by the federal government’s Home Owners Loan Corporation during the New Deal. In …
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Jacksonville officials consider excluding areas with ‘hazardous’ mortgage security grades for new detention facility
14 Dec 2025 02:21 GMT
… “D”) on the 1937–1940 Home Owners’ Loan Corporation Residential Security Maps.
The resolution …
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What Is Land Justice? Nonprofit Leaders Share Their Answers
09 Dec 2025 18:59 GMT
… regime from 1934, when the Home Owners’ Loan Corporation was created during the New …
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Hidden in code: How tech reinvents Jim Crow barriers to housing
07 Dec 2025 21:46 GMT
… areas. In the 1930s, the Home Owners’ Loan Corporation created red zones where large …
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How redlining created segregation, barriers to homeownership
26 Nov 2025 04:21 GMT
… the maps that the federal Home Owners’ Loan Corporation drew to indicate largely Black … color.
The government created the Home Owners’ Loan Corporation, which essentially was the body …
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Big housing info comes in small crate
20 Nov 2025 04:46 GMT
… use of Urban Renewal
The Home Owners Loan Corporation (HOLC) was a federal agency created … Depression. Between 1935 and 1940, HOLC mapped more than 200 major …
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Why the Black middle class is still struggling
09 Nov 2025 20:56 GMT
… map created by the Federal Home Owners’ Loan Corporation, determined who could receive loans …
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2025 Los Angeles Fires: The Rebuild
05 Nov 2025 16:15 GMT
… , the New Deal created the Home Owners’ Loan Corporation (HOLC) as a government entity, taking … , public or private.
In 1939, HOLC published a set of maps …
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When success isn’t enough: Why the Black middle class is still struggling
04 Nov 2025 00:40 GMT
… map created by the Federal Home Owners’ Loan Corporation, determined who could receive loans …