Scholars now describe HOLC's property evaluations and risk management procedures, along with the practices of the Federal Housing Administration, Veterans Administration, and U.S. Housing Authority, as significant
contributions to the continuation of racial segregation, intergenerational poverty, and
enduring wealth gap between white Americans and minorities in the U.S. Mapping Inequalities provides visitors an idea of
what housing policies were like in the New Deal era and how these guidelines have since affected the interaction between wealth and poverty in contemporary America.