All maps and charts taken from this excellent study: https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/b839374e031d4ecfa21cb1fbaebbf31e
This study also says the following, which is repeated in Omaha's most recent Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing study ( https://affh.cityofomaha.org/ )
The "market" will not correct for the intentionality with which we have pursued racism and discrimination in our housing policy, because the "market" did not create racism and discrimination - policymakers and residents did.
Segregation is alive and well in Omaha.
(From Palma Strand's Creighton Law Review article, necessary reading which can be found here: https://dspace2.creighton.edu/xmlui/handle/10504/109008?show=full)
(From Palma Strand's Creighton Law Review article, necessary reading which can be found here: https://dspace2.creighton.edu/xmlui/handle/10504/109008?show=full)
Here is what the Legislature found when they created the Community Development Law, which governs TIF. https://nebraskalegislature.gov/laws/statutes.php?statute=18-2102