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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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