Redlining map of the City of New Orleans 1939. The “star” represents the Lamanche Street Locus and has been added. The pink areas surrounding Lamanche Street represent those neighborhoods slated for “Fourth Grade” housing, in which the Federal Housing Administration (FHA) would not secure bank mortgages; other private insurance companies followed suit. The FHA determined these codes by the racial composition of the neighborhood, in which they would systematically not insure properties within racially mixed neighborhoods. This deleterious practice created barriers to prospective Black homeowners, produced racially uneven development in urban spaces, and became a factor for racially-targeted predatory lending practices.