I used “was redlined” as a past tense phrase to refer to the time that my neighborhood was marked in red in the 1930s, and because redlining had effects far beyond that decade, which are discussed in the reference to two papers from 2005 and 2017, respectively.
Redlining, or discriminatory lending, indeed happens today. http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/ct-biz-modern-day-redlining-20180215-story,amp.html