Insurance Redlining - Disinvestment, Reinvestment, and the Evolving Role of Financial Institutions

Redlining refers to discrimination in the homeowners' insurance market based on racial or ethnic characteristics of neighborhoods or individuals that are unrelated to risk. This book brings new evidence to bear on the issues that have framed almost 30 years of debate over insurance redlining, providing a framework for the development of public policy, private industry practice, and partnerships with community-based organizations that can help make insurance available. Contributors include academics, community organizers, private attorneys, and staffs of government agencies and nonprofit organizations. Contributors include: Tom Baker and Karen McElrath; Stephen Dane; Robert Klein; George Knight; William Lynch; Richard Ritter; Jay Schultz; D.J. Powers; and Shanna Smith and Cathy Cloud.

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By Gregory D. Squires

Summary

This text addresses discrimination in the homeowner's insurance market based on the race or ethnic characteristics of neighbourhoods or of individuals that are related to risk. It brings fresh evidence to bear on the issues that have framed almost 30 years of debate over insurance redlining.

Product details

• Authors: Gregory Squires, Gregory D Squires, Gregory D. Squires
• Assisted by: Gregory D. Squires (Editor)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2020
• EAN: 9780877666660
• ISBN: 978-0-87766-666-0
• No. of pages: 259
• Dimensions: 149 mm x 226 mm x 17 mm
• Weight: 376 g
• Series: Urban Institute Press; Urban Institute Press
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Business > Individual industrial sectors, branches