A powerful grassroots movement campaigned in the ’70s and ’80s for banks to reinvest equitably in red-lined urban communities. It failed—but why?

Wenfei Xu
Wenfei Xu is a postdoctoral fellow at the Mansueto Institute for Urban Innovation and the Center for Spatial Data Science at the University of Chicago. She studies historical federal housing interventions in the United States, neighborhood change, and socio-spatial segregation.