Here is the HOLC Redlining map for Omaha.
Here is the map of eviction hotspots over the course of 2012-2019.
Here is the map of eviction hotspots with a map of majority non-white census tracts.
Here is a chart of the schools with the highest rate of evictions.
Here is a chart of the schools with the lowest rate of evictions.
Here is a map of school catchment areas with evictions.
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)
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
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