translate English to French: Proponents of the CRA based their allegations of redlining on research that showed large disparities in mortgage lending activity according to the racial composition of neighbourhoods.29 These initial studies, as well as several studies conducted during the 1980’s, concluded that banks had curtailed the supply of credit to particular neighbourhoods.
Les tenants de la CRA fondaient leurs allégations de discrimination financière sur des recherches qui démontraient d’énormes disparités dans les prêts hypothécaires consentis selon la composition raciale de différents quartiers29. De ces études initiales, ainsi que de plusieurs études menées au cours des années quatre-vingt, on a conclu que les banques restreignait l’offre de crédit dans certains quartiers.