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Neighborhoods were categorized on a four-grade scale: best, still desirable, definitely declining, and hazardous.

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Personal Finance, Loans, Mortgages, Redlining, Personal Finance Insider, PFI Reference, TOC-jump-to, PFI DEI Mortgage, PFI Storytelling
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Understanding redlining and how it kept communities of color from homeownership