| Title: | Home Owners' Loan Corporation Neighborhood Grades Composite Shapefile, Manhattan, 1937 |
| Authors: | Robert K. Nelson Justin Madron Nathaniel Ayers Katrina Hayes Chloe McKinney Leah Reistle Anna Moorhead Ava Clarke Claire Tate Charlie Sears Rong Bao Lily Calaycay Beaumont Smith Rebecca Tribble Erica Ott Barbie Savani Radha Zanza Zach Halaschak Gavin Hosman Stefan St. John Donald Edmonds Haley Fortner Max Hoffman Amanda Lineberry Emily Landon Caitlin Greene Ashley Flanigan Leah Reistle Gabriella Schneider Nat Berry Paige Warner Patrick Kliebert |
| Keywords: | Boundaries;Race |
| Description: | This polygon shapefile represents neighborhood boundaries and Home Owners' Loan Corporation (HOLC) "grades" and notes for major metropolitan areas in Manhattan in 1937. The layer is a polygon rendering of a print map that has been scanned, vectorized, and transcribed by the University of Richmond Digital Scholarship Lab. Using data and evaluations organized by local real estate professionals, lenders, developers, and real estate appraisers in Manhattan, the HOLC assigned "grades" to residential neighborhoods that reflected their "mortgage security" that would then be visualized on color-coded maps. Neighborhoods receiving the highest grade of "A"--colored green on the maps--were deemed minimal risks for banks and other mortgage lenders when they were determining who should received loans and which areas in the city were safe investments. Those receiving the lowest grade of "D," colored red, were considered "hazardous." The creation and circulation of these maps has been widely proven to contribute to the intergenerational oppression of Black Americans and people of color in Manhattan. Refer to the documentation for geoprocessing lineage and more information and visit https://dsl.richmond.edu/panorama/redlining/#loc=5/39.1/-94.58&text=intro/. |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2451/60076 |
| Appears in Collections: | Spatial Data Repository |
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