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Segregation In Chicago In The 1970's
In Chicago, a population of 2.722 millions of people has been a segregated community impacted by redlining and the idea of segregation still happens today. One example of knowing the maintenance of a home in a slump area today is by going to Chicago because they still have a very divided community that has turned into severe discrimination between all different kinds of races and this issue still hasn’t been fixed in a number of years According to the RATA Association article, the author states, “Although open redlining was made illegal in the 70s through community reinvestment legislation, the practice continued in less overt ways., and many allege that the redlining target group has shifted from African Americans to the LGBT community.”

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