By Dedrick Asante-Muhammad, Esha Kamra (Former NCRC Intern), and Connor Sanchez (NCRC Intern)

Greenlining, February 16, 2022, California Communities of Color Fall Further Behind in Mortgage Access The Greenlining Institute report, Home Lending to Communities of Color in California 2020, is an analysis of federal home mortgage data from the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act. The report, released in February 2022 shows that Black, Latino, Native American and Pacific Islander

The New York Times, February 16, 2022, Blackstone expands further into rental housing in the United States. The private equity firm Blackstone, the largest owner of commercial real estate in the world, is expanding its portfolio of rental housing and commercial real estate in the United States. The firm announced on Wednesday that it would

Reuters, February 15, 2022, Biden’s Fed nominees in limbo after Republican vote boycott US Senate action on President Joe Biden’s five nominees to the Federal Reserve stalled Tuesday after Republicans boycotted a key vote over objections to Sarah Bloom Raskin, the White House’s pick to be the central bank’s Wall Street regulator. Senate Banking Committee

ABC News, February 15, 2022, Can the VA pull off its ‘monumental’ bid to end veteran homelessness? While the number of homeless vets has dropped by more than half over the last decade, an estimated 20,000 ex-service members are still without permanent housing on any given night, according to figures released this month by the Department of Housing and

The Washington Post, February 13, 2022, ‘Survival mode’: Inflation falls hardest on low-income Americans While inflation is rising everywhere, price hikes are particularly devastating to lower-income households with already tight budgets. Nearly all their expenses go to necessities — food, energy, housing — which have seen some of the largest increases at different points over

Washington Post, February 10, 2022, More cities seek to redress widespread 20th-century destruction of Black neighborhoods More than 50 years ago, Santa Monica, Calif., used eminent domain to build the Interstate 10 highway, slicing an east-west swath to the Pacific Ocean that destroyed homes, businesses and churches and displaced more than 600 mostly Black families in

NPR, February 11, 2022, California sues Tesla over alleged rampant discrimination against Black employees California’s Department of Fair Employment and Housing is suing Elon Musk’s company Tesla over racism and harassment toward Black employees at Tesla’s plant in Fremont, Calif., according to a lawsuit filed by the state this week. The company has called the

American Banker, February 10, 2022, U.S. consumers stand to save billions from banks’ overdraft reforms In one of the first efforts to tally the impact of recent overdraft fee reforms, a new analysis finds that changes under way at just five banks could save consumers more than $2 billion annually. The Pew Charitable Trusts reviewed

ABC News, February 11, 2022, New York City looks to lower greenhouse gas emissions by improving public housing There are more than 1.2 million public housing units across the country, according to the Department of Housing and Urban Development. Many of these buildings have aging heating and cooling equipment that is largely inefficient, resulting in