redlining

Meanings

Noun

• The process of or an instance of redlining.
• The systematic denial of various services to residents of specific, often racially associated, neighborhoods or communities, either directly or through the selective raising of prices.

Verb

• Present participle of redline

Origin

• From the red outlines used by the HOLC to mark D-rated neighborhoods with minority occupants.{{cite-web
• |date=October 19, 2016
• |author=Camila Domonoske
• |title=Interactive Redlining Map Zooms In On America's History Of Discrimination
• |url=https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/10/19/498536077/interactive-redlining-map-zooms-in-on-americas-history-of-discrimination
• |work=npr