Search Results: redlining

The Future of Dallas Walkability is Found in The Past

By Jon Anderson / May 28, 2020 /

…broken neighborhood interconnections and functionalities are built on racism. From redlining to highway construction, we broke our neighborhoods based on the ideology of keeping black people out. The automobile was…

The Question Nobody (Except Us) Is Asking Candidates

By Bethany Erickson / June 2, 2019 /

Photo courtesy the National Trust for Historic Preservation Nobody (at least, media-wise) is asking, but we did. And from the candidates who responded to our questionnaires we sent out a…

Positive News, For Once, in Tenth Street Historic District

By Bethany Erickson / May 30, 2019 /

Demetria McCain, president Inclusive Communities Project, speaks to the crowd gathered at the Tenth Street Historic District Thursday (Photos courtesy John R. Erickson). Although the demolitions continue unabated in the…

Tenth Street Lawsuit: Dallas Has “History of Enforcing Segregation” By Ordinance

By Bethany Erickson / February 24, 2019 /

…redlining are seeing a troubling amount of demolitions of homes that, residents insist, would be saved if in other historic districts — predominately white historic districts — in the city….

Endangered Dallas: Neighborhoods Historic, But Hardly Preserved

By Bethany Erickson / February 17, 2019 /

…to Dallasites before, during, and after redlining are seeing a troubling amount of demolitions of homes that, residents insist, would be saved if in other historic districts — predominately white…