By 1940, how many Milwaukee County suburbs had used racially restrictive covenants in land deeds to prevent non-white people from owning or leasing property?
Redlining is using a mapping system to deter lending agencies from issuing mortgages to Black and immigrant families and was implemented as part of FDR's 1933 New Deal housing police. What percentage of Milwaukee County's neighborhoods were redlined in 1938?
By 1962, the federal government had spent a total of $120 billion on new housing as part of FDR’s New Deal. As a result of the effects of redlining and racially restrictive covenants, how much of this went to non-whites who made up 11.4% of the population?
Nationally, in the eleven years following the passage of the 1944 G.I. Bill, almost 4 million mortgages were co-signed by the Veterans Administration. How many of these were made to the more than 1.1 million Black veterans?
Black Milwaukeeans were 8% of the population in 1960. To facilitate the construction of Milwaukee's highway system in the 1960's, a number of families lost their homes. What proportion of those displaced were Black?
Prior to the housing collapse and Great Recession that began in 2008, people of color were disproportionately targeted with subprime loans. What percentage of Black and Hispanic home buyers were issued these loans as their best option?