Project Summary
This study examines the historical effects of residentially exclusionary housing policies on contemporary neighborhood levels of homicide. There is a focus on how this association is influenced by immigration.
Project Description
A new, but growing body of scholarship finds a link between historical residential redlining and a host of negative health outcomes. Extending this line of inquiry, this study examines patterns of homicide over six-decades (1950-2010) in San Antonio, Texas. This period is of particular interest because it follows the initiation of restrictive lending practices, or ‘redlining.’ Redlining was a process that began in the 1930s as a financial protection for banks against making “risky loans,” that is, loans to residents of “high risk” communities, which were also overwhelmingly communities of color. This study examines the degree to which neighborhood levels of homicide are influenced by having been designated “hazardous” nearly a century ago. Moreover, as a longstanding “majority minority” city, Miami represents an ideal context for considering how this association is influenced by immigration.