How Redlining Has Shaped Our Cities and Increased the Racial Divide in America Webinar

Wednesday, February 24 – 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm

In this webinar, Beth Johnson will present the history of redlining, the practice in which maps made by federal government entities in the 1930’s and 1940s outlined in red the neighborhoods that were considered hazardous to offer lending. We will look at how redlining has led to decades of disinvestment in neighborhoods of color. Sean Suder, esq will discuss the continued implications of redlining in our cities and how it has manifested into current land use policy.

This Webinar has been approved for 1.0 AIA HSW CEU

Presenters

Beth Johnson, Cincinnati Urban Conservator since 2016, is a leader in historic preservation planning in southwest Ohio and northern Kentucky, with experience in guiding investment in historic buildings to create vibrant neighborhoods in Cincinnati, Covington and as far as San Antonio and Austin, Texas.

Sean Suder received his Bachelor of Urban and Environmental Planning from the University of Virginia School of Architecture and his Juris Doctor from the University of Virginia School of Law. He served nearly four years as the City of Cincinnati’s chief land use attorney, became a partner in a top commercial real estate and land use practice, before forming his own law firm which provides quality commercial real estate, zoning, land use, and public law counsel extending beyond Ohio to Indiana, Kentucky and Washington, D.C., where he is licensed to practice.