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The Washington Informer: CNN Faces Backlash For Excluding Black-Owned Media From Presidential Debate Coverage

The Washington Informer, June 26, 2024, CNN Faces Backlash for Excluding Black-Owned Media From Presidential Debate Coverage CNN has come under fire for denying media credentials to every Black-owned media entity, including those based in Atlanta, for the upcoming presidential debate on Thursday. Despite granting over 600 media credentials, not even one was extended to […]

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KMUW: Salaries Are Not Keeping Pace With Housing Costs In The Midwest, Especially In Lincoln

KMUW, June 27, 2024, Salaries Are Not Keeping Pace With Housing Costs In The Midwest, Especially In Lincoln Lizzie Turner has witnessed the impact of unaffordable housing and discrimination firsthand. As a community organizer for non-profit Nebraska Appleseed’s housing justice program, Collective Impact Lincoln she advocates for people who are trying to find safe and affordable places to live.

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The Wall Street Journal: America’s Frozen Housing Market Is Warping The Economy

The Wall Street Journal, June 28, 2024, America’s Frozen Housing Market Is Warping The Economy If you locked in a dirt-cheap mortgage when interest rates were low, congratulations for being one of the winners in America’s skewed housing market. Renters, realtors and recruiters are among those getting the raw end of the deal. High interest

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Joint Center For Housing Studies: The State Of The Nation’s Housing

Joint Center For Housing Studies, 2024, The State Of The Nation’s Housing Homeowners and renters across the US are struggling with high housing costs. On the for-sale side, millions of potential homebuyers have been priced out of the market by high home prices and interest rates, while the number of renters with cost burdens has

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The New York Times: How ‘Rural Studies’ Is Thinking About the Heartland

The New York Times, June 29, 2024, How ‘Rural Studies’ Is Thinking About the Heartland Kristin Lunz Trujillo grew up proud of her family’s way of life. She spent summers getting ready to show cattle at the county fair. During the school year, she rushed home after class to feed the chickens on her family’s

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Shelterforce: Community Development: Between A Rock And A Hard Place

Shelterforce, June 18, 2024, Community Development: Between A Rock And A Hard Place I’ve had the privilege of being the editor of Shelterforce for 14 years, and I also worked there in the late 1990s, with a period of time in between in local news and working within the community development world. For those not familiar with Shelterforce,

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Calmatters: State Inspectors Are Supposed To Visit All Farmworker Housing To Ensure Its Safety. Sometimes They Used FaceTime Instead

Calmatters, July 1, 2024, State Inspectors Are Supposed To Visit All Farmworker Housing To Ensure Its Safety. Sometimes They Used FaceTime Instead When Antonio Bravo stepped into the Salinas hotel in May 2020, he first noticed a foul smell. Then he saw the bare metal cot with no mattress that his employer had given him

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Consumer Financial Protection Bureau: CFPB and FHFA Release Updated Data From The National Survey Of Mortgage Originations For Public Use

Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, July 1, 2024, CFPB and FHFA Release Updated Data From The National Survey Of Mortgage Originations For Public Use The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) and the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) today published updated loan-level data for public use collected through the National Survey of Mortgage Originations (NSMO). The data

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NPR: When Little Kids Don’t Have Stable Housing, It Can Affect Their Health Later

NPR, July 1, 2024, When Little Kids Don’t Have Stable Housing, It Can Affect Their Health Later Not having secure housing is a huge stress for anyone. But when children experience this, especially in early childhood, it can affect their health years down the line. That’s the finding of a new study in the journal Pediatrics,

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CalMatters: Parents’ Lawsuit Forces California Schools To Track Discrimination Against Students

CalMatters, June 28, 2024, Parents’ Lawsuit Forces California Schools To Track Discrimination Against Students California will play a more active role in ensuring school districts don’t discriminate against students with disabilities, English learners and Black students, under a legal settlement announced this week. The agreement between the state and the American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California

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WBUR: Converting Boston’s Offices To Housing Is Tricky, But It’s Starting To Happen

wbur, July 8, 2024, Converting Boston’s Offices To Housing Is Tricky, But It’s Starting To Happen When Rich Kershaw’s company bought the building at 95 Berkeley St. in 2016, the plan was to renovate and rent out the offices. “Upgrade the elevators, upgrade the bathrooms, redo the lobbies and the facade and hopefully increase the

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The Wildlife Society: Discriminatory Housing Practices Of The Past Still Shape Urban Wildlife

The Wildlife Society, June 10, 2024, Discriminatory Housing Practices Of The Past Still Shape Urban Wildlife Discriminatory housing practices that kept people of color from moving into white enclaves generations ago still leave a lingering mark on California cities—and on the urban wildlife that occupies them. Looking at the four largest cities in California, researchers found

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HousingWire: What A Kamala Harris Presidency Could Mean For Housing

HousingWire, July 22, 2024, What A Kamala Harris Presidency Could Mean For Housing Anyone wondering who would take Joe Biden’s spot on top of the Democratic presidential ticket should he drop out got an answer within mere hours of Biden’s long-anticipated withdrawal â€” Kamala Harris. Democrats in office and the party’s elder statesmen and stateswomen quickly endorsed Harris, including those

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NPR: As Heat Waves Intensify, More Public Housing Residents May Get Help With AC Bills

NPR, July 4, 2024, As Heat Waves Intensify, More Public Housing Residents May Get Help With AC Bills The summer has already been a scorcher and heat alerts across the country could lead to more records broken. Public housing residents, many elderly, children or sick, are disproportionately vulnerable to heat illness, yet there’s no federal mandate to

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Modern Healthcare: Progress On Health Disparities Is Slow After 20 Years: Report

Modern Healthcare, June 26, 2024, Progress On Health Disparities Is Slow After 20 Years: Report The National Academies of Sciences Engineering and Medicine on Wednesday said law and policy changes aimed at eliminating health disparities have made slow and uneven progress improving racial inequities over the past 20 years. The Ending Unequal Treatment report found

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