Beyond Redlining: HOLC Spaces Development in Los Angeles County - UCLA Center for Neighborhood Knowledge Blog - Latest News CNK Director Paul Ong and researchers recently published a research project at the UCLA Ziman Real Estate, through the Rosalinde and Gilbert Research Program. The project explores the legacy of the Home Owners Loan Corporation’s (HOLC) redlining practices on urban development in the context of Los Angeles. The project draws upon multiple data sources to compare the development of graded and ungraded HOLC spaces, investigating whether these findings support the redlining-legacy-hypothesis. Tremendous literature has documented that redlining, a practice of relating marginalized neighborhoods as risky for mortgage lending, contributed to today’s geography of inequality along class and racial lines. “The results show that the ungraded places became racially and socioeconomically stratified even in the absence of redlining (HOLC grading). This indicates that there are fundamental societal processes that produce and reproduce spatialized inequality. Again, this is not to deny the redlining legacy. Instead, one plausible reinterpretation is that HOLC tends to perpetuate the pattern of inequality among older neighborhoods, thus significantly anchoring the geographic locations of marginalized and privileged communities and populations,” CNK team concludes. Read the article here: Redlining and Beyond: Development Within and Outside HOLC Spaces in Los Angeles County 1164 2265 CNK Staff CNK Staff 2023-09-19 16:45:05 2023-11-13 19:29:22 Beyond Redlining: HOLC Spaces Development in Los Angeles County replies Leave a Reply Want to join the discussion? Feel free to contribute! Leave a Reply Cancel reply Recent Posts Asian Surnames Among Fastest-Growing in the U.S. ICE Raids and Shifting U.S. Demographics Ong on ICE Deployment at U.S. Airports Ong on Chinatown’s Laundry Access Inequities Launching Our Immigration Enforcement Briefs Series Archives April 2026 September 2025 July 2025 March 2025 February 2025 January 2025 September 2024 December 2023 November 2023 September 2023 February 2023 May 2022 April 2022 March 2022 February 2022 January 2022 December 2021 November 2021 October 2021 September 2021 August 2021 July 2021 June 2021 May 2021 April 2021 March 2021 February 2021 January 2021 December 2020 November 2020 October 2020 September 2020 August 2020 July 2020 June 2020 May 2020 April 2020 March 2020 December 2019 October 2019 June 2019 May 2019 February 2019 July 2018 June 2018 March 2018 February 2018 Categories Events LA Wildfires Data Briefs News Ong Publications Uncategorized Redevelopment and displacement in Stockton’s first Asian enclaves Entrepreneurs of Color in California Face Challenges in Technology, Climate... Scroll to top