Anarchy Journal Constitutional

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Redlining may be gone from the law—but it still shapes the land.

And the land is heating up.

The climate crisis isn’t hitting everyone equally.
In American cities, the poorest neighborhoods are often the hottest—and not by coincidence.

Historically redlined areas denied loans and investment during the 20th century, also lost access to green space. These neighborhoods were paved over, boxed in by highways, and stripped of shade. Today, they face extreme heat without the trees or infrastructure to soften the blow.

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Recent studies show that formerly redlined zones can be up to 13°F hotter than wealthier neighborhoods just across town. This isn’t just an inconvenience. It’s a death sentence during heatwaves.

“The impacts of discriminatory housing practices are still felt today—not just in wealth and education gaps, but in the very air people breathe and the temperature they endure.” — Dr. Rachel Morello-Frosch, UC Berkeley environmental health scientist

Tree canopies reduce urban heat, but trees were never planted in “undesirable” neighborhoods. The result? A map of climate inequality that mirrors maps of racial exclusion from nearly a century ago.

This is environmental racism. And it’s still killing people.

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“Extreme heat kills more people in the U.S. than any other weather event, and it disproportionately affects low-income, urban communities of color.” — CDC Climate & Health Program

Fixing it takes more than a few green grants or tree giveaways.

It requires climate justice rooted in housing justice—recognizing shade as a right, not a luxury.

It means reckoning with the legacy of racist urban planning.
It means rewilding cities with justice in mind.
It means treating shade like infrastructure.

And it means confronting the systems—past and present—that turned housing discrimination into climate danger.

Because redlining didn’t end.
It just got hotter.

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