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Polygons of Home Owners' Loan Corporation [Watertown, Massachusetts] {1939}

University of Richmond Digital Scholarship Lab, Virginia Tech, University of Maryland Digital Curation Innovation Center · 1939 Full Details

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Title
Polygons of Home Owners' Loan Corporation [Watertown, Massachusetts] {1939}
Description
This dataset displays the mapped polygons from the Home Owners' Loan Corporation for Watertown, Massachusetts., During the 1930s and early 1940s, HOLC staff members, using data and evaluations organized by local real estate professionals—lenders, developers, and real estate appraisers—in each city, assigned grades to residential neighborhoods that reflected their "mortgage security" that would then be visualized on color-coded maps. Neighborhoods receiving the highest grade of "A"—colored green on the maps—were deemed minimal risks for banks and other mortgage lenders when they were determining who should received loans and which areas in the city were safe investments. Those receiving the lowest grade of "D," colored red, were considered "hazardous."
Creator
LaDale Winling, Nathan Connolly, Richard Marciano, Robert K. Nelson
Publisher
University of Richmond Digital Scholarship Lab, Virginia Tech, University of Maryland Digital Curation Innovation Center
Subject
Discrimination in mortgage loans, Redlining
Temporal Coverage
1939
License
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
Access Rights
Public
Format
GeoJSON or Shapefile
Language
English
Date Added
May 13, 2022

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    LaDale Winling, Nathan Connolly, Richard Marciano, Robert K. Nelson (n.d.). Polygons of Home Owners' Loan Corporation [Watertown, Massachusetts] {1939}. University of Richmond Digital Scholarship Lab, Virginia Tech, University of Maryland Digital Curation Innovation Center. https://dsl.richmond.edu/panorama/redlining/#city=watertown-ma (dataset)
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