Harlem and East Harlem have argued for years that our community has been relined with an unfair and unjust share of New York City's addiction programs and shelters.  The Greater Harlem Coalition has conducted the analysis of data on the distribution of these programs and services across the city, and weighted the results against population, addiction rates, homeless rates, death rates, and other indicators.  Time and time again (irrespective of our analytical variable), Harlem and East Harlem demonstrative shown to be oversaturated in comparison with wealthier and whiter New York Neighborhoods.

During the process of analysis, we began to use the term 'Medical Redlining' to indicate that federal, state, and local governments and program providers, have systematically and repeatedly located programs and services here that have been rejected and strenuously opposed by other communities.  

Mortgage Insurance Redlining, as a racial planned program of disinvestment in low-income communities of color, has been brilliantly digitized and visualized by the University of Richmond:

On their site you can see their brief analysis of Harlem:

What eventually became our Metro-North station was described as:

to explore the full site:

https://dsl.richmond.edu/panorama/redlining

Spooky Stuff at the Herb Garden