Redlining

What is redlining?

• The drawing of a red line across neighborhoods

• The process of drawing red lines to show the neighborhoods where people of color lived and lenders wouldn't make loans there.

• A red line on a map that shows where wealthy people and poor people live today.

• The process of drawing red lines to show people that neighborhoods were not equal.

According to the video, how did the green areas keep gaining wealth from redlining even after it was declared illegal?

• A snowball effect made their houses worth more and then they could sell them and get a lot of money.

• The green and blue areas had way more house flippers than the yellow and red areas.

• Banks kept giving only white people money.

• People kept gaining wealth by working full time, saving their money, and passing it on to their kids.

Schools are segregated today.

• True

• False

Why do white schools get more money for facilities, teachers, and supplies than other schools?

• White schools have more money because the district gives it to them.

• Schools are funded by property taxes. The school pays a tax and they get it back so they can get better teachers, supplies, and facilities.

• Schools are funded by the richest houses in the neighborhood. The richest houses give lots of money to the school as charity so students can have nice things.

• Schools are funded by property taxes. Statistically, white schools get more than black and Latino schools because white people's property is more expensive and therefore makes the city government more money.

What was the effect of redlining we talked about that we can see today?

• gender inequality today

• poor people got less money than rich people

• housing inequality today

• rich people get more money than poor people today