redlining

or red-lin·ing

[ red-lahy-ning ]

noun

1. a discriminatory practice by which banks, insurance companies, etc., refuse or limit loans, mortgages, insurance, etc., within specific geographic areas, especially inner-city neighborhoods.

Word History and Origins

Origin of redlining¹

redline + -ing ¹, as if banks, insurance companies, etc., had outlined such areas in red on a map

Example Sentences

You can draw a straight line from segregated communities and redlining to Medicaid policy, which says we’re going to pay less for the same service.

From Washington Post

Big telecom companies stand to benefit the most from these provisions, even though a mandate to prevent practices known as “digital redlining” could prove costly by ensuring service providers don’t discriminate in where they expand networks.

From Time

These are the same communities that used redlining to shut out families of color decades ago.

From Voice of San Diego

Potential admins now undergo additional training on redlining — or excluding people from certain neighborhoods — and diversity.

From Washington Post

In a neighborhood which has been subjected to redlining and racism, disregard by political leaders, and decades of neglect and disinvestment of capital, community revitalization is as complex a problem as you’ll ever find.

From MIT Technology Review

In short, redlining forced blacks into particular areas and then starved those areas of affordable capital.

From The Daily Beast