Title
Residential Security Map and Area Descriptions, Hartford-West Hartford-East Hartford, Connecticut
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1937
Abstract
Beginning in 1935, the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation worked with local mortgage lenders to evaluate the "trend of desirability" in residential areas in Hartford and over 200 other cities. The HOLC portrayed its appraisal report in a color-coded map with the highest grade (A) in green and the lowest grade (D) in red. This government agency considered not only housing conditions, but also the "social status of the population," and downgraded neighborhoods with non-white, immigrant, and poor residents. In later decades, these actions became associated with the discriminatory practice of "redlining." The University of Connecticut MAGIC center hosts an historical interactive map and links to all of the source materials, located at: http://magic.lib.uconn.edu/otl/doclink_holc.html
Recommended Citation
Home Owners’ Loan Corporation. “Residential Security Map and Area Descriptions, Hartford-West Hartford-East Hartford, Connecticut”, 1937. Box 64, City Survey Files, Record Group 195: Records of the Federal Home Loan Bank Board. National Archives II, College Park, Maryland. Available from the Trinity College Digital Repository, Hartford, Connecticut (http://digitalrepository.trincoll.edu)
Comments
Submitted as part of the Cities, Suburbs and Schools project for the On The Line web-book by Jack Dougherty and colleagues.