UH researchers find near century-old redlining discriminatory housing policies leave lasting legacy on modern day heart health
cleveland.com: Sadeer Al-Kindi, associate professor at the School of Medicine, discussed the downstream effects of discriminatory lending practices, chief among them: heart health problems. “What’s surprising to me is that every city that I’ve looked into, there is significant residential segregation. ... And no matter where you look, the relationship holds between the grading of the neighborhood (loan) risk and cardiometabolic health,” he said.
