The legacy of structural racism: Associations between historic redlining, current mortgage lending, and health.

ABSTRACT: Structural racism, which is embedded in past and present operations of the U.S. housing market, is a fundamental cause of racial health inequities. We conducted an ecologic study to 1) examine historic redlining in relation to current neighborhood lending discrimination and three key indicators of societal health (mental health, physical health, and infant mortality rate (IMR)) and 2) investigate sustained lending disinvestment as a determinant of current neighborhood health in one of the most hypersegregated metropolitan areas in the United States, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. We calculated weighted historic redlining scores from the proportion of 1930s Home Owners' Loan Corporation residential security grades contained within 2010 census tract boundaries. We combined two lending indicators from

SUBMITTER: Lynch EE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8099638 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature