Red Lining and Housing Discrimination in Kern County
Channel: CSUB Stiern Library - Historical Research Center
Date: 2023-10-12

The story of Housing in the California’s Central Valley has been one of exclusion, isolation, and destruction. This lecture will examine the history and development of “red-lining” and housing discrimination in Bakersfield and Kern County. It will also examine the primary sources that document this history and discuss the importance of critical examination of primary sources in historical research.

Recorded Wednesday, October 11, 2023, 6:00 pm @ the Kern County Museum
https://hrc.csub.edu/americas-newest-city/
00:00:00 Introduction
00:01:43 Dr. Oliver Rosales, California Humanities
00:04:27 Chris Livingston, research, primary sources, and challenges
00:10:49 Mission of the Historial Research Center
00:25:49 Redlining and Housing Discrimination
00:27:11 Housing Conditions
00:29:03 FHA and HOLC discriminatory practices 
00:29:50 Property Grading in Bakersfield
00:31:17 Racially Restrictive Covenants from 1938 to 1950
00:32:43 Practices before the FHA and HOLC
00:34:45 Realtor's Code of Ethics
00:37:29 Covenant Mapping in Bakersfield 
00:41:23 Shelley v. Kraemer
00:42:46 How did excluded communities buy
00:44:55 Suburban Investment after Bakersfield's 1952 Earthquake, America's Newest City
00:53:10 Restrictive Covenant Modification