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

Lloyd, James M.
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1346782041

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2012, Master of Arts (MA), Ohio University, Geography (Arts and Sciences).
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.
Geoffrey Buckley, PhD (Advisor)
Yeong-Hyun Kim, PhD (Committee Member)
Harold Perkins, PhD (Committee Member)
192 p.
African American Studies; Geography; Sociology; Urban Planning
redlining; reinvestment; community development; gentrification; Washington, DC; Adams-Morgan; politics of scale; venue shopping

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  • Lloyd, J. M. (2012). Community Development, Research, and Reinvestment: The Struggle against Redlining in Washington, DC, 1970-1995 [Master's thesis, Ohio University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1346782041

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Lloyd, James. Community Development, Research, and Reinvestment: The Struggle against Redlining in Washington, DC, 1970-1995. 2012. Ohio University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1346782041.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Lloyd, James. "Community Development, Research, and Reinvestment: The Struggle against Redlining in Washington, DC, 1970-1995." Master's thesis, Ohio University, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1346782041

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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