Redlining & housing discrimination
Redlining Baltimore
Security map drawn 1937; federal underwriting practice until the Fair Housing Act of 1968West Baltimore, graded D on the 1937 HOLC map, MD
Federal appraisers graded Black Baltimore neighbourhoods “D” and coloured them red on the city's 1937 security map, cutting them off from mortgage lending for a generation.
The shape on the map is a reconstruction drawn from historical descriptions, not a surveyed boundary. Follow the sources for authoritative maps.