A redlining layer of 143 cities is now available in ArcGIS Living Atlas and in the Racial Equity GIS Hub. This ready-to-use layer can provide important context for your work. GIS-ready historical redlining data is an important tool to help us understand how historical inequities still contribute to inequities today.
Read this blog post by my colleague Diana Lavery to learn more about how many present-day racial inequities can be traced back directly to the federal practice of redlining neighborhoods in the 1930s, and how you can use this historical data layer in your work to advance equity and social justice in your community today. In the blog, she references examples of how
