[Oe List ...] redlining

W. J. via OE oe at lists.wedgeblade.net
Sun Feb 21 17:30:56 PST 2016


http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2014/05/the-racist-housing-policy-that-made-your-neighborhood/371439/?utm_content=buffer8b489&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer

When the Harvard sociologist Robert J. Sampson examined incarceration rates in Chicago in his 2012 book, Great American City, he found that a black neighborhood with one of the highest incarceration rates (West Garfield Park) had a rate more than 40 times as high as the white neighborhood with the highest rate (Clearing)
Yeah, that jumped out at me. We know a lot about East Garfield Park, which is not that different!Marshall
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