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Todd Michney
@ToddMichney
Urban historian and author, #SurrogateSuburbs: Black Upward Mobility and Neighborhood Change in #Cleveland, 1900-1980 (UNC Press 2017); professor @GeorgiaTech
Nov 9, 2022 • 18 tweets • 12 min read
This critique of my new article on historical #redlining is from someone with incredible quantitative research chops, who helped me understand HOLC’s 1933-36, "rescue phase" mortgage lending record. Here's a thread on economists vs. historians re: redlining generally ... First, here's my new article on how & why HOLC made its “security maps” in case anyone’s interested … journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…
Oct 31, 2022 • 20 tweets • 16 min read
It’s finally out – my article on how & why the Home Owners Loan Corporation made its #redlining maps: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…. Here’s an illustrated thread summarizing the major findings … (1/19)
@SAGE_Publishing @HOLCRedlining @SACRPH @UrbanHistoryA Previous scholars have disagreed on why exactly HOLC made these “security” (#redlining) maps & how it used them, what its mapmaking methodology was, whether it shared the maps with private industry, and the agency’s relationship to the Federal Housing Administration … (2/19)
Sep 21, 2021 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
I salute new research on #redlining that furthers the conversation. But let’s not just revert to debating whether HOLC, FHA, or private industry was most culpable. Rothstein’s assertion as quoted in this article is not incorrect … governing.com/context/redlin… HOLC didn’t even *have* to share its maps to help spread the racist notion that Black people’s very presence lowered property values. @lwinling & I show that it collaborated with FHA & private indivs to spread this thinking and #redlining methodology.
Jun 23, 2021 • 18 tweets • 21 min read
Check out "The Roots of #Redlining," a new article @lwinling & I wrote that was just released in the @JournAmHist. Here's the link academic.oup.com/jah/article-ab… but an illustrated thread with summary & our major findings follows ... (1/17)
@UrbanHistoryA @SACRPH We trace the intellectual roots of #redlining to economist Richard T. Ely and his students & colleagues affiliated with the Institute for Research in Land Economics, which he founded in 1920 ... (2/17)