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Redlines and Greenspace: The Relationship between Historical Redlining and 2010 Greenspace across the United States

INTRODUCTION: Redlining, a racist mortgage appraisal practice of the 1930s, established and exacerbated racial residential segregation boundaries in the United States. Investment risk grades assigned [Formula: see text] ago through security maps from the Home Owners’ Loan Corporation (HOLC) are asso...

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Autores principales: Nardone, Anthony, Rudolph, Kara E., Morello-Frosch, Rachel, Casey, Joan A.
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Publicado: Environmental Health Perspectives 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7839347/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33502254
http://dx.doi.org/10.1289/EHP7495
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Rudolph, Kara E.
Morello-Frosch, Rachel
Casey, Joan A.
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description INTRODUCTION: Redlining, a racist mortgage appraisal practice of the 1930s, established and exacerbated racial residential segregation boundaries in the United States. Investment risk grades assigned [Formula: see text] ago through security maps from the Home Owners’ Loan Corporation (HOLC) are associated with current sociodemographics and adverse health outcomes. We assessed whether historical HOLC investment grades are associated with 2010 greenspace, a health-promoting neighborhood resource. OBJECTIVES: We compared 2010 normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) across previous HOLC neighborhood grades using propensity score restriction and matching. METHODS: Security map shapefiles were downloaded from the Mapping Inequality Project. Neighborhood investment risk grades included A (best, green), B (blue), C (yellow), and D (hazardous, red, i.e., redlined). We used 2010 satellite imagery to calculate the average NDVI for each HOLC neighborhood. Our main outcomes were 2010 annual average NDVI and summer NDVI. We assigned areal-apportioned 1940 census measures to each HOLC neighborhood. We used propensity score restriction, matching, and targeted maximum likelihood estimation to limit model extrapolation, reduce confounding, and estimate the association between HOLC grade and NDVI for the following comparisons: Grades B vs. A, C vs. B, and D vs. C. RESULTS: Across 102 urban areas (4,141 HOLC polygons), annual average [Formula: see text] 2010 NDVI was 0.47 ([Formula: see text]), 0.43 ([Formula: see text]), 0.39 ([Formula: see text]), and 0.36 ([Formula: see text]) in Grades A–D, respectively. In analyses adjusted for current ecoregion and census region, 1940s census measures, and 1940s population density, annual average NDVI values in 2010 were estimated at [Formula: see text] (95% CI: [Formula: see text] , [Formula: see text]), [Formula: see text] (95% CI: [Formula: see text] , [Formula: see text]), and [Formula: see text] (95% CI: [Formula: see text] , [Formula: see text]) for Grades B vs. A, C vs. B, and D vs. C, respectively, in the 1930s. DISCUSSION: Estimates adjusted for historical characteristics indicate that neighborhoods assigned worse HOLC grades in the 1930s are associated with reduced present-day greenspace. https://doi.org/10.1289/EHP7495
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spelling pubmed-78393472021-01-29 Redlines and Greenspace: The Relationship between Historical Redlining and 2010 Greenspace across the United States Nardone, Anthony Rudolph, Kara E. Morello-Frosch, Rachel Casey, Joan A. Environ Health Perspect Research INTRODUCTION: Redlining, a racist mortgage appraisal practice of the 1930s, established and exacerbated racial residential segregation boundaries in the United States. Investment risk grades assigned [Formula: see text] ago through security maps from the Home Owners’ Loan Corporation (HOLC) are associated with current sociodemographics and adverse health outcomes. We assessed whether historical HOLC investment grades are associated with 2010 greenspace, a health-promoting neighborhood resource. OBJECTIVES: We compared 2010 normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) across previous HOLC neighborhood grades using propensity score restriction and matching. METHODS: Security map shapefiles were downloaded from the Mapping Inequality Project. Neighborhood investment risk grades included A (best, green), B (blue), C (yellow), and D (hazardous, red, i.e., redlined). We used 2010 satellite imagery to calculate the average NDVI for each HOLC neighborhood. Our main outcomes were 2010 annual average NDVI and summer NDVI. We assigned areal-apportioned 1940 census measures to each HOLC neighborhood. We used propensity score restriction, matching, and targeted maximum likelihood estimation to limit model extrapolation, reduce confounding, and estimate the association between HOLC grade and NDVI for the following comparisons: Grades B vs. A, C vs. B, and D vs. C. RESULTS: Across 102 urban areas (4,141 HOLC polygons), annual average [Formula: see text] 2010 NDVI was 0.47 ([Formula: see text]), 0.43 ([Formula: see text]), 0.39 ([Formula: see text]), and 0.36 ([Formula: see text]) in Grades A–D, respectively. In analyses adjusted for current ecoregion and census region, 1940s census measures, and 1940s population density, annual average NDVI values in 2010 were estimated at [Formula: see text] (95% CI: [Formula: see text] , [Formula: see text]), [Formula: see text] (95% CI: [Formula: see text] , [Formula: see text]), and [Formula: see text] (95% CI: [Formula: see text] , [Formula: see text]) for Grades B vs. A, C vs. B, and D vs. C, respectively, in the 1930s. DISCUSSION: Estimates adjusted for historical characteristics indicate that neighborhoods assigned worse HOLC grades in the 1930s are associated with reduced present-day greenspace. https://doi.org/10.1289/EHP7495 Environmental Health Perspectives 2021-01-27 /pmc/articles/PMC7839347/ /pubmed/33502254 http://dx.doi.org/10.1289/EHP7495 Text en https://ehp.niehs.nih.gov/about-ehp/license EHP is an open-access journal published with support from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health. All content is public domain unless otherwise noted.
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Redlines and Greenspace: The Relationship between Historical Redlining and 2010 Greenspace across the United States
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title_fullStr Redlines and Greenspace: The Relationship between Historical Redlining and 2010 Greenspace across the United States
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title_short Redlines and Greenspace: The Relationship between Historical Redlining and 2010 Greenspace across the United States
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7839347/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33502254
http://dx.doi.org/10.1289/EHP7495
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