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Housing Discrimination
Urban History
Definitions
Economic Factors
100

This discriminatory practice by banks and insurers helped push white flight by making it difficult for minorities to get loans in certain neighborhoods.

What is Redlining?

100

This Supreme Court decision ended school segregation and is often linked to increased white flight.

What is Brown vs. Board of Education?

100

This term describes the mass migration of white residents from racially diversifying cities to suburbs in the mid-20th century

What is white-flight?

100

This term describes when investors avoid putting money into urban neighborhoods, especially those with minority populations. (Hint: Opposite of invest)

What is disinvestment?

200
(Daily Double) Underdeveloped neighborhoods, lowered property, and landlord abandonment.
What are consequences of Redlining?
200

This U.S. city is often used as a case study of white flight due to its rapid demographic change and urban decline.

What is Detroit?

200
Refusal to issue a loan/services to someone on the basis of race or ethnicity.
What is redlining?
200

As white residents moved out, businesses often did this.

What is relocate to the suburbs?

300
Race or group of people that received loans they were not qualified to receive.
Who are lower-income white families?
300

Neighborhoods that were redlined were often labeled with this color on maps.

What is red?

300

A survey focused on respondents' opinions about Detroit's metropolitan and neighborhood problems, including public policy issues and racial concerns

What is the 1976 Detroit Area Study?

300

This economic term describes the loss of industry and manufacturing jobs that fueled urban decline in many cities. (Hint: opposite of industrialization )

What is deindustrialization?

400
Race of people that were denied loans they were qualified for.
Who are middle and upper class African Americans?
400

The result of white families leaving city centers, causing declines in housing prices.

What is the increase in black homeownership?

400

The belief that the white race is inherently superior to other races and that white people should have control over people of other races.

What is white supremacy?

400

Urban areas with high poverty and little investment are sometimes referred to by this term indicating economic collapse.

What are economic deserts?

500

The 1968 law that made housing discrimination illegal was called this.

What is the Fair Housing Act?

500

Which years were white flight most prominent?

What is 1950-1980?

500

This 1960s trend saw many cities lose their middle-class populations to newly developed suburbs.

What is Suburbanization?

500

As white and wealthy families moved to suburbs, these local urban revenues plummeted.

What are property taxes?