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redlining's woke cousin: promising to reinvest in the neighborhoods it once wrote off.
means targeted investment, lending, and policy aimed at repairing economic damage done to communities historically excluded by redlining.
from coined as the direct answer to redlining, the 1930s practice where federal maps marked minority neighborhoods in red as bad credit risks, starving them of loans for generations.
target eraundoing damage from 1930s-1960s housing policy
tools usedgrants, tax credits, community banks, green jobs
double meaningalso ties environmental investment to equity goals