redlining

Time and time again Clevelanders are presented with data maps that illustrate stark inequities suffered by disadvantaged communities, and each time, the maps seem to echo the city's legacy of redlining.

Researchers at Case Western Reserve University have analyzed archival maps and documents to determine what motived government agencies and private financial firms to redline certain Ohio neighborhoods in the 1930s and 40s.

The intersection of asthma and redlining was part of Ideastream's Connecting the Dots reporting series.

New research is shedding light on the true origins of the redlining maps that led to mortgage discrimination in predominately Black neighborhoods. Many people have mistakenly pointed to maps created by the Home Owners Loan Corporation in the 1940s. Researchers say, however, that other maps created by banks, insurance companies and the FHA were truly behind the racist banking policies known as redlining.

A Cuyahoga County Common Pleas judge has pressed pause in a court case between University Hospitals and the city of Bedford sparked by the hospital system's decision to cut emergency and other services at UH Bedford.

In Cleveland, the debate over whether the holdings of nonprofit hospitals should be exempt from property tax are informed by the racism and redlining.

The expansive holdings of nonprofit hospitals like the Cleveland Clinic are at the center of an on-going debate over whether tax exemption policies should apply to large nonprofits like hospitals that critics say operate more like for-profit businesses than charities.

A program focusing on building a connection between nutrition and medical outcomes will soon be launched in Summit County.

Several Cleveland neighborhoods are still feeling the lasting impacts of a decades-old discriminatory practice called "redlining."Redlining is an illegal…