Worcester Business Journal
WBJ
December 12, 2022 Volume 33 • Number 23 $3.50
Central Massachusetts' Source for Business News
In 1936, an assessment to determine which Worcester neigh-
borhoods should receive home loans ranked them largely by
residents' race and ethnicity. Today, as rents rise and economic
vitality spreads unevenly across the city, the neighborhoods suf-
fering the most are those ranked the worst 86 years ago.
Read this joint project between WBJ
and the Worcester Regional Research
Bureau starting on page 6.
MAP | COURTESY OF UNIVERSITY OF RICHMOND
PHOTOS | CHRISTINE PETERSON
REDLINING: An
economic legacy
