Redlining

The summit featured several speakers including RISE Together CEO Danielle Sydnor, Franklin County Commissioner Kevin Boyce and author and tech entrepreneur Sevetri Wilson.

Eastgate is a Columbus community that prides itself on its diversity. For decades it was a community where middle-class Black families thrived.

Columbus health and city leaders announced a new initiative aimed at preventing lead exposure to children in neighborhoods that were red-lined decades ago. It's called Healthy Children and Safe Homes by 2040.

Columbus wants to revamp its zoning code which was last overhauled in the 1950s.

Sundown towns were a form of discrimination and segregation prominent in the U.S. during the period after Reconstruction through the first half of the 20th century. The name comes from a warning—with either an explicit or implicit threat of violence—that people of color were not welcome in the area after sundown.

The $9 million settlement requires the bank to invest $7.75 million in a loan subsidy fund "to increase access to credit for home mortgage, improvement and refinance loans, as well as home equity loans and lines of credit, in majority-Black and Hispanic neighborhoods in the Columbus area," according to a DOJ press release.

Redlining is the discriminatory practice that kept minorities from purchasing homes in white neighborhoods. We'll examine the legacy it left around the U.S. and Columbus.

Redlining is the discriminatory practice that kept minorities from purchasing homes in white neighborhoods. We'll examine the legacy it left around the U.S. and Columbus.

"We see a really clear association between how these maps were drawn in the '30s and the air pollution disparities today," says an author of a study on the effects of the discriminatory policy.

The new program, which aims to address harms suffered by Black residents due to the city's past discriminatory housing policies, is part of a larger reparations fund established in 2019.