How redlining built the housing market agents work in today

by Jessi Healey

The maps are from the 1930s. The consequences are not. Braden Crooks of Designing the WE brought the "Undesign the Redline" exhibit to the NAR expo in Washington to show how Depression-era federal housing policy drew the lines that still define today's market — from the affordability crisis to appraisal bias to the racial wealth gap.

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