This thread warrants an acknowledgment for how historic racist policies shape a systemically racist present, particularly in the communities most loudly opposing more housing in their self-defined boundaries. This is a thread (1/12) https://twitter.com/TribTowerViews/status/1285629400797646850
This is a racial dot map (one dot=one person) of the LA area (from the 2010 Census), showing the region's diversity, segregation, and relative population density. There are some areas more sparsely-populated, which are typically bluer (i.e. White residents). (2/12)
Redlining maps created in the 1930s by the Homeowners Loan Corporation (HOLC) described many of these communities in ways that determined where White people could get federally-backed mortgages (Black people basically could not get them). (3/12)
https://dsl.richmond.edu/panorama/redlining/#loc=5/39.1/-94.58
So, first we have Sherman Oaks Homeowners Association, in a neighborhood that barred non-White residents for much of the 20th Century, described by HOLC as "Highly deed restricted and protected from racial hazards." Today it is mostly white. (4/12)
https://twitter.com/TribTowerViews/status/1285630116408823810
So, first we have Sherman Oaks Homeowners Association, in a neighborhood that barred non-White residents for much of the 20th Century, described by HOLC as "Highly deed restricted and protected from racial hazards." Today it is mostly white. (4/12) https://twitter.com/TribTowerViews/status/1285630116408823810
So, first we have Sherman Oaks Homeowners Association, in a neighborhood that barred non-White residents for much of the 20th Century, described by HOLC as "Highly deed restricted and protected from racial hazards." Today it is mostly white. (4/12) https://twitter.com/TribTowerViews/status/1285630116408823810
Then we have Brentwood Homeowners Association, in a neighborhood that explicitly barred non-White residents for much of the 20th Century, described by HOLC as "Highly deed restricted" providing "racial protection." Today it is mostly White. (5/12)
https://twitter.com/TribTowerViews/status/1285631425383981064
Then we have Brentwood Homeowners Association, in a neighborhood that explicitly barred non-White residents for much of the 20th Century, described by HOLC as "Highly deed restricted" providing "racial protection." Today it is mostly White. (5/12) https://twitter.com/TribTowerViews/status/1285631425383981064
Then we have Brentwood Homeowners Association, in a neighborhood that explicitly barred non-White residents for much of the 20th Century, described by HOLC as "Highly deed restricted" providing "racial protection." Today it is mostly White. (5/12) https://twitter.com/TribTowerViews/status/1285631425383981064
Then we have SE Torrance Homeowners' Association, in a city that explicitly barred non-White residents and, as a result, was the sight of mid-1960s protests. SE Torrance today is somewhat racially mixed but less so than its surrounding communities. (6/12)
https://twitter.com/TribTowerViews/status/1285632209857261569
The deed restrictions in Sunset Park in Santa Monica were described by HOLC as "protect[ing] against racial hazards." Today it remains more White than its adjoining neighborhoods. (7/12)
https://twitter.com/TribTowerViews/status/1285633864384356352
The deed restrictions in Sunset Park in Santa Monica were described by HOLC as "protect[ing] against racial hazards." Today it remains more White than its adjoining neighborhoods. (7/12) https://twitter.com/TribTowerViews/status/1285633864384356352
The deed restrictions in Sunset Park in Santa Monica were described by HOLC as "protect[ing] against racial hazards." Today it remains more White than its adjoining neighborhoods. (7/12) https://twitter.com/TribTowerViews/status/1285633864384356352
Comstock Hills is a small community that earned HOLC's gold star as "deed restrictions provide for perpetual racial protections" and were "rigidly enforced." In other words, no Black people allowed. It's still almost exclusively White today. (8/12)
https://twitter.com/TribTowerViews/status/1285635092279418881
Comstock Hills is a small community that earned HOLC's gold star as "deed restrictions provide for perpetual racial protections" and were "rigidly enforced." In other words, no Black people allowed. It's still almost exclusively White today. (8/12) https://twitter.com/TribTowerViews/status/1285635092279418881
Comstock Hills is a small community that earned HOLC's gold star as "deed restrictions provide for perpetual racial protections" and were "rigidly enforced." In other words, no Black people allowed. It's still almost exclusively White today. (8/12) https://twitter.com/TribTowerViews/status/1285635092279418881
Franklin Corridor is curious, because we can only guess who exactly this is. But Franklin traverses some of LA's largest wealth disparities, depending which side of the street you're on. HOLC noted this too, and it remains today, 50 years later. (9/12)
https://twitter.com/TribTowerViews/status/1285635644522471424
Franklin Corridor is curious, because we can only guess who exactly this is. But Franklin traverses some of LA's largest wealth disparities, depending which side of the street you're on. HOLC noted this too, and it remains today, 50 years later. (9/12) https://twitter.com/TribTowerViews/status/1285635644522471424
Franklin Corridor is curious, because we can only guess who exactly this is. But Franklin traverses some of LA's largest wealth disparities, depending which side of the street you're on. HOLC noted this too, and it remains today, 50 years later. (9/12) https://twitter.com/TribTowerViews/status/1285635644522471424
Franklin Corridor is curious, because we can only guess who exactly this is. But Franklin traverses some of LA's largest wealth disparities, depending which side of the street you're on. HOLC noted this too, and it remains today, 50 years later. (9/12) https://twitter.com/TribTowerViews/status/1285635644522471424
And then there's the City of Lafayette, incorporated in 1968 in the midst of White flight to "racially-protected" single-family neighborhoods. Today it is still overwhelmingly White (85%). (10/12)
https://twitter.com/TribTowerViews/status/1285636022374748161
As I've noted in my @AbundantHousing Housing 101, today's single-family homeowners are the recipients of our nation's greatest affordable housing program, directed toward White households for generations and enabling the accumulation of enormous White wealth and power. (11/12)
It should not surprise that the beneficiaries of generations of government policies would fight to defend their windfall - and that should also not stop elected officials from doing what they can now to even just begin to redress the wrongs of centuries of racist policies. (/end)
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