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1260 days ago

Redlining policies of the 1930’s continue to impact neighbourhoods and their temperatures.

How Decades of Racist Housing Policy Left Neighborhoods Sweltering

nytimes.com

In the 1930s, federal officials redlined these neighborhoods in Richmond, Va., marking them as risky investments because residents were Black. Today, they are some of the hottest parts of town in the summer, with few trees and an abundance of heat-trapping pavement.