redlining

The new "redlining" is not geographic but something qualitatively similar, and no less invidious against non-corporate entities.

Adams bankers say they'll go after Breedlove (Jack Bog's Blog) 2009

The corporation chartered by the government to combat redlining is itself redlining?!?

Housing's P/E Ratio, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

The practice became known as redlining because red lines were drawn around neighborhoods of color to mark them as high risk.

Seth Freed Wessler: Stop the Next American Nightmare 2009

On the other hand, if the problem were really analogous to state regulation of insurance, I'd expect there to be some "redlining" - localities or states that modular home makers do not serve because their regulations are unusually onerous.

From Religion to Real Estate, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

In the 1970s, when community groups discovered that lenders and the FHA were engaged in systematic racial discrimination against minority consumers and neighborhoods -- a practice called "redlining" -- they mobilized and got Congress, led by Wisconsin Senator William Proxmire, to adopt the Community Reinvestment Act and the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act, which together have significantly reduced racial disparities in lending.

Peter Dreier: The Mortgage Mess and the Economic Meltdown: What McCain (and the rest of us) Should Learn from the Keating Scandal 2008

It also outlaws "redlining" - the banking practice of drawing a figurative "red line" around specific geographic areas in which they are not prepared to lend money.

ANC Daily News Briefing 2003

While past lending discrimination cases primarily focused on "redlining" - a bank's refusal to lend to qualified borrowers in minority areas - the new push will instead center on a more recent phenomenon critics have called "reverse redlining."

Prometheus 6 - All respect and no restraint 2010

Although the act was adopted to prevent "redlining" - the practice of refusing loans to otherwise qualified borrowers in low-income areas-it also contained language that included small business, agriculture, and similar groups among the interests that had to be served.

Seeker Blog 2009

In the 1980s, groups such as the activists at ACORN began pushing charges of "redlining" - claims that banks discriminated against minorities in mortgage lending.

All Today's News - Sightline Daily 2009

Many of these neighborhoods had historically been subject to "redlining" - the practice of designating specific lower-income or minority neighborhoods as off-limits for credit.

BEAUTIFUL, ALSO, ARE THE SOULS OF MY BLACK SISTERS 2009