Community Development, Research, and Reinvestment: The Struggle against Redlining in Washington, DC, 1970-1995

Using archival data and oral histories, I describe the community reinvestment movement in Washington, DC from 1970 until 1985. Though the movement began as isolated private advocacy in the early 1970s, it helped pass key pieces of federal legislation, such as the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act (HMDA) and the Community Reinvestment Act (CRA). Additionally, DC’s reinvestment movement is unusual in that the city government used an interstate banking law to force reinvestment. Furthermore, I describe class-based barriers to reinvestment within the African American community and the community development and reinvestment struggle of the Adams Morgan Organization in the late ‘70s. I conclude with a discussion of how advocacy and research led to reinvestment because of successful venue-shopping and scale-jumping. This work fills specific gaps in the literature, to include DC’s role in the writing of CRA and HMDA, qualitative evidence of the effects of redlining, the use of interstate banking laws for reinvestment, and class issues within the African American community in the context of reinvestment.

Name thesis:degree_name

Master of Arts (MA)

Level thesis:degree_level

masters

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Geography (Arts and Sciences)

Grantor dc:publisher

Ohio University

Year dc:date

2012

Author dc:creator

• Lloyd, James M.

Contributors dc:contributor

• Buckley, Geoffrey

• African American Studies
• Geography
• Sociology
• Urban Planning
• redlining
• reinvestment
• community development
• gentrification
• Washington, DC
• Adams-Morgan
• politics of scale
• venue shopping

Statement dc:rights

• unrestricted
• This thesis or dissertation is protected by copyright: all rights reserved. It may not be copied or redistributed beyond the terms of applicable copyright laws.

Language dc:language

English

Repository record dc:identifier

http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1346782041

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:etd.ohiolink.edu:ohiou1346782041