Does racism have inertia? A study of historic redlining’s impact on present-day associations between development and air pollution in US cities

We explore how Home Owners’ Loan Corporation (HOLC) scores of the 1930s impact 2010 and 2015 inhalable particulate matter (PM _10 ) concentrations for 15,232 census tracts, clustered in 196 cities throughout the contiguous United States. Using areal apportionment, we assign a HOLC score to housing t...

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Main Authors: Patrick Trent Greiner, Rachel G McKane
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: IOP Publishing 2022-01-01
Series:Environmental Research Letters
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ac9070