Redlining's Harmful Effects on Babies Three Generations Later

November 19, 2020

A Home Owners' Loan Corp. map from 1937. It depicts redlining in the East Bay.Two of ISSI's Berkeley Center for Social Medicine faculty affiliates, Rachel Morello-Frosch and Mahasin Mujahid, are among the co-authors of this new study marking the continuous harmful aftermath of the redlining policy enacted over 80 years ago. "'Studies like this show that these legacies of structural racism, even though they happened many, many decades ago, are still exerting their health effects today,'" Morello-Frosch explains; one of which denies entire neighborhoods economic opportunity.