POLICY AREAS

Housing, Neighborhood Stability and Wealth Creation

Housing, Neighborhood Stability and Wealth Creation
  1. Over 11.5 percent of black households and 19.0 percent of Hispanic households compared to 7.5 percent of white households are uninsured.
  2. Over 55 percent of Black Americans live in the southern states—states with highest rate of uninsured and where governors and state attorneys general are fighting to dismantle and invalidate the Affordable Care Act (ACA) or Obamacare and Medicaid expansion.  Many of these same southern states have the highest poverty, worst health, and shortest life expectancy.
  3. Decades of racist redlining against black people is showing up in urban heat island disparities in 2020.
  4. Redlining is also implicated in high COVID-19 dangers in segregated black and brown communities.
  5. Only 4.6% of Whites live in homes with no car, compared to 19% of Black and 13.7% of Latinos.
  6. Racial redlining practiced against black people a century ago is showing up in urban heat island disparities today.
  7. Redlined black neighborhoods are 5-13 degrees Fahrenheit warmer than non-redlined neighborhood.
  8. Redlining is also implicated in high COVID-19 dangers in segregated black and brown communities.