Redlining was outlawed in 1968. Here's how the practice is still hurting Black Americans.
The 1968 Fair Housing Act outlawed redlining nationwide. But the disastrous effects of the discriminatory practice are still contributing to today's wealth gap between Black and White Americans.
"I think you see it in every city in America," Atlanta councilman Amir Farokhi told CBS News' Michelle Miller. "This is where the basis of segregated neighborhoods remains to this day."
Farokhi represents a divided district in Atlanta — half the area is enjoying the bloom of reinvestment, while the other is still blighted.
"We can draw a line kind of northwest to southeast, and most of the neighborhoods above that line are predominantly White and most beneath it are predominantly Black," he said. "You are still living with generational divide and the wealth gap that happens because of that."
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