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It’s always unsettling when public officials, as in the example of the quote from mayor’s office spokesperson Taylor Schaffer, preface or condition their media statements with qualifiers like: “… if I am being honest….”. As if truthfulness is a discretionary conditional or the exception to accurately communicating to the public. Then again, we should remember journalist Irving Stone’s oft-quoted quip from the early part of the last century: “All governments lie…”
Isn’t the correct headline “City bicentennial celebrations ramp up despite riots and rampant crime”
Indianapolis is 200 years old this year. The IBJ front paged a story about it. Unfortunately they featured a prominent picture of a Redline map from 1937 without any mention of it in the story. Redlining was basically a credit map of which areas of town, people would pay their mortgages and keep up their houses. The oldest parts of Indianapolis were a bit over 100 years old. Many of these homes had fallen into disrepair and lacked adequate water, heat, bathrooms, electrical wiring and closets.
Redlining was done under a Federal Order. According to Wikipedia, In 1935, the Federal Home Loan Bank Board (FHLBB) asked the Home Owners’ Loan Corporation (HOLC) to look at 239 cities and create “residential security maps” to indicate the level of security for real-estate investments in each surveyed city. On the maps, the newest areas—those considered desirable for lending purposes—were outlined in green and known as “Type A”. These were typically affluent suburbs on the outskirts of cities. “Type B” neighborhoods, outlined in blue, were considered “Still Desirable”, whereas older “Type C” were labeled “Declining” and outlined in yellow. “Type D” neighborhoods were outlined in red and were considered the most risky for mortgage support.
These neighborhoods tended to be the older districts in the center of cities; often they were also black neighborhoods. Urban planning historians theorize that the maps were used by private and public entities for years afterward to deny loans to people in black communities Recent research has indicated that the HOLC did not redline in its own lending activities and that the racist language reflected the bias of the private sector and experts hired to conduct the appraisals . By the late 50’s, Redlining started having noticeably ill effects. Neighborhoods that were primarily single family, owned or mortgaged started experiencing opportunistic buyers who instead of moving in, started renting these homes for very low, attractive rates . The new inhabitants didn’t maintain their homes up to the old par or care much for landscaping and mowing.
The great migration to the suburbs began. Land was cheaper, schools were being built, roads were being paved to the county line, and stores and shopping made living near the county line easier & possible.
The next problem to hit most cities was highway construction, which was poorly planned, expensive, and tended to divide cities into two or more areas, destroying the cohesiveness of the older neighborhoods. Steven Pettinga (subscriber) Indianapolis