Deep racial disparities still plague regions of cities like Philadelphia even decades after districts were redlined and racially segregated. These neighborhoods have a severe lack of economic investment, and much of the population lives below the poverty line. Continual housing discrimination has made it difficult for residents, who are mostly people of color, to break the cycle of poverty, and as a result, these groups have suffered from compounded, generational psychological pain.

Blumgart, Jake. “How Redlining Segregated Philadelphia.” Next City, 8 Dec. 2017, https://nextcity.org/features/view/redlining-race-philadelphia-segregation.