![]() Fans of suspense fiction with a social conscience will be pleased. ![]() Wise combines an accessible explanation of the nature and impact of redlining with a page-turning narrative. That policy “sets the stage for slumlords buying cheap for cash, racial steering and housing abandonment.” Influential forces in the city oppose Flynt’s idealistic crusade, and Morgan’s successor, attractive Harvard student Alex Jordan, also winds up in jeopardy. Flynt is convinced that powerful people, who consider the neighborhood “too risky to do business with,” have redlined it, choking off mortgages and insurance money. ![]() Morgan’s death leads her boss, Jedediah Flynt, who’s wracked with guilt, to redouble his efforts to find the people behind the arsons. Welcome to the blog tour for Redlined: A Novel of Boston by Richard W. The banks have REDLINED Jamaica Plain, causing the housing market to crash, wiping out local homeowners lifetime investments and opening the neighborhood to blockbusters and slumlords. Sandy Morgan, a neighborhood organizer working for the Jamaica Plain Social Action Committee, was helping to investigate a series of suspicious fires in abandoned properties in the area, until she was killed in an explosion caused by an arsonist in yet another vacant building. Bostons Jamaica Plain is a neighborhood under siege, a community skating along the razors edge of decline. ![]() Wise ( The French Blue) highlights a predatory housing practice-redlining-in this taut thriller set in 1974 Boston. ![]()
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