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Invitation To Mapping: How Gis Can Facilitate New Discovering In Urban And Planning History, Amy Hillier
Invitation To Mapping: How Gis Can Facilitate New Discovering In Urban And Planning History, Amy Hillier
Amy Hillier
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W.E.B. Du Bois And The Social Survey Movement, Amy Hillier
W.E.B. Du Bois And The Social Survey Movement, Amy Hillier
Amy Hillier
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Residential Security Maps And Neighborhood Appraisals. The Homeowners' Loan Corporation And The Case Of Philadelphia, Amy E. Hillier
Residential Security Maps And Neighborhood Appraisals. The Homeowners' Loan Corporation And The Case Of Philadelphia, Amy E. Hillier
Amy Hillier
At the request of the Home Loan Bank Board, the Home Owners’ Loan Corporation (HOLC) created color-coded maps for cities across the country between 1935 and 1940 that indicated risk levels for long-term real estate investment. Involvement in this City Survey Program marked a departure from the original mission of HOLC to provide new mortgages on an emergency basis to homeowners at risk of losing their homes during the Depression. This article considers why HOLC made these maps, how HOLC created them, and what the basis was for the grades on the maps. Geographic information systems and spatial regression models …
Who Received Loans? Home Owners' Loan Corporation Lending And Discrimination In Philadelphia In The 1930'S, Amy E. Hillier
Who Received Loans? Home Owners' Loan Corporation Lending And Discrimination In Philadelphia In The 1930'S, Amy E. Hillier
Amy Hillier
The lending record of the Home Owners’ Loan Corporation (HOLC) has received little attention compared with HOLC’s residential security maps. Specifically, the extent to which HOLC practiced racial and ethnic discrimination in the process of making and servicing more than a million loans to homeowners during the Depression has not been carefully examined. Using primary sources including HOLC publications, newspaper articles, 1930 census data, and mortgage records from Philadelphia, this research shows that HOLC did make loans to African Americans, Jews, and immigrants. Evidence suggests, however, that HOLC supported racial segregation in the process of reselling properties acquired through foreclosure.
Redlining And The Homeowners' Loan Corporation, Amy E. Hillier
Redlining And The Homeowners' Loan Corporation, Amy E. Hillier
Amy Hillier
This article analyzes the impact of the residential security maps created by the Home Owners’Loan Corporation (HOLC) during the 1930s on residential mortgages in Philadelphia. Researchers have consistently argued that HOLC caused redlining and disinvestment in U.S. cities by sharing its color-coded maps. Geographic information systems and spatial statistical models were used to analyze address-level mortgage data from Philadelphia to determine if areas with worse grades actually had less access to residential mortgage credit as a result. Findings indicate that the grades on HOLC’s map do not explain differences in lending patterns with the exception of interest rates, which were …
Web Du Bois And The "Negro Problem": Thoughts On Violence In Philadelphia, Amy Hillier
Web Du Bois And The "Negro Problem": Thoughts On Violence In Philadelphia, Amy Hillier
Amy Hillier
This sermon, delivered at First Unitarian Church of Philadelphia, might also be called "Why a white girl from New Hampshire is studying The Philadelphia Negro." This essay/sermon connects Du Bois's 1896 survey of Philadelphia to the violence currently plaguing Philadelphia.