A new analysis of investment patterns in Baltimore shows the degree to which decades-old housing policy that divided the city by race has locked in a landscape of “haves” and “have nots.”
Between 2011 and 2016, Baltimore neighborhoods that are less than 50% African American received four times the investments of neighborhoods that are over 85% African American, according to the report published today by the Urban Institute.
That’s just one of the findings in “The Black Butterfly: Racial Segregation and Investment Patterns in Baltimore” that charts and maps capital flow, real estate, lending, and both public and private investment by neighborhood.
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