In this video Gene Demby of NPR’s Code Switch explains why neighborhoods are still so segregated today.

In 2017 NPR shared a great video about Housing Segregation and discussed the issue of a practice called Redlining. Through the practice of Race and Redlining Housing segregation led the way for many of the issues we see with today.

In 1968, Congress passed the Fair Housing Act that made it illegal to discriminate in housing. Gene Demby of NPR’s Code Switch explains why neighborhoods are still so segregated today.

Video length: 6:36

Additional Reading:

https://www.npr.org/2020/01/14/795961381/racist-housing-practices-from-the-1930s-linked-to-hotter-neighborhoods-today

https://www.al.com/news/birmingham/2015/06/old_birmingham_map_outlined_ne.html

Commentary: Not Easy to Find “Home” with Birmingham’s Redlining History

Food Desserts and Redlining in Birmingham, Alabama

Birmingham’s ‘Food Deserts’ Have Been Shaped by its Redlined Past

Make sure you check with the following links for Housing Discrimination in the State of Alabama.

Fair Housing Center of Northern Alabama