“Well, you can’t burn history,” the contractor told Allen Safianow, an Indiana historian. “That’s what’s wrong today.”
“Seattle's formal redlining laws were ended in June 1977 when Washington Governor Dixy Lee Ray signed House Bill 323, which made it unlawful for financial institutions to deny or vary loan terms based on a property's neighborhood. While the federal Fair Housing Act in 1968 had already made racial discrimination in housing illegal, state law in Washington specifically outlawed redlining practices by lenders in 1977. “ -Google
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