Search Results: redlining

Southern Dallas Buyer’s Guide: Lessons for Buying in an ‘Up and Coming’ Neighborhood

By Jon Anderson / September 5, 2017 /

…specifically south of I-30 from I-35E to east of Fair Park. These are the areas that particularly fell prey to redlining. Once thriving areas in the midst of renewal, they…

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Jon Anderson: Slavery is Alive And Well, And in Your Pocket

By Jon Anderson / September 1, 2017 /

…we made better decisions (on where to be born, usually). Once the bedrock of community formation, mixed economic neighborhoods began dying decades ago around the time redlining was outlawed.  Housing…

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Southern Dallas Buyer’s Guide: Looking For a Reasonably Priced Home? Let the Redline Map Be Your Guide

By Jon Anderson / August 22, 2017 /

…that for something to revive, it must be neglected in the first place. When racial redlining was made illegal in 1968, another type of redlining emerged.  Economic redlining is alive…

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Attractive Low Income Housing and a Grocery Store in Fair Park: Why Won’t the Dallas City Council Say AMEN?

By Candy Evans / February 21, 2017 /

…to stop (essentially) redlining, this development would be going against the grain of that handshake deal. Course, that leaves the dirt there vacant and fallow and not producing anything resembling…

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Dallas Architecture Forum: Fair Park is a LULU

By Jon Anderson / January 27, 2016 /

…hard times (redlining?) and blacks increasingly moved into the area. Their limited earning power saw the area depress economically with all the resulting negative outcomes … including the walling-in of…

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