Redlining is continues to exist in the United States as a complex byproduct of the New Deal era of discriminatory housing practices designed to prevent desirable areas from becoming populated by Black residents. The effects of decades-long gentrification and redlining are still felt to this day and continue to alter the tenuous landscape of American housing. Recent research conducted at Washington University in St. Louis reveals additional insight into the magnitude and breadth of redlining practices, and their unequivocal association to drastic health disparities among vulnerable populations, including co-morbidities tied to worse environmental health.

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