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Substantial evidence shows that minorities and their neighborhoods receive fewer loans and less loan dollars than whites, even after adjusting for important economic controls. We explore the consequences of this form of racial inequality on property and violent crime rates across Albuquerque neighborhoods. We utilize a combination of census, police, and home mortgage disclosure data to explore the trajectories of lending and crime across Albuquerque neighborhoods from 1990 - 2006 via (1) latent growth curve models over the full seventeen years and (2) residual change models between the 1990 and 2000 census periods. Our work helps to further document and uncover the sources of neighborhood-level inequality. More generally our work situates neighborhood trajectories of decline or prosperity in the context of decisions by political and economic actors rather than on the individual level attributes of residents. ..PAT.-Unpublished Manuscript [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]