Between 1950 and 1966, the U.S. federal government set aside funds to remove “slum” and “blighted” neighborhoods.
And while the original goal was to improve housing opportunities, most of the funds were used for industrial redevelopment and/or commercial purposes. This resulted in hundreds of thousands of people — primarily minorities — being displaced from their homes and removed from their community.
Use the Renewing Inequality tool to visualize this displacement during the urban renewal period.
Features
- Uses color-coded circles to show displacement
- View boundaries, projects, and poverty/racial data
- Overlap with redlining boundaries
- Has easy-to-read barcharts for year selections
- Inspect any one project to see displacement details
- Includes legislative history information
Launch the Renewing Inequality Tool
Authors and Creators
University of Richmond’s Digital Scholarship Lab and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
